On the extension of the FKG inequality to $n$ functions

The 1971 Fortuin-Kasteleyn-Ginibre (FKG) inequality for two monotone functions on a distributive lattice is well known and has seen many applications in statistical mechanics and other fields of mathematics. In 2008 one of us (Sahi) conjectured an extended version of this inequality for all $n>2$ monotone functions on a distributive lattice. Here we prove the conjecture for two special cases: for monotone functions on the unit square in ${mathbb R}^k$ whose upper level sets are $k$-dimensional rectangles, and, more significantly, for arbitrary monotone functions on the unit square in ${mathbb R}^2$. The general case for ${mathbb R}^k, k>2$ remains open.