Schur order in the Fréchet and Mardia families #
Reflecting the first coordinate swaps the M and W weights of a Fréchet copula and
preserves Schur equivalence. Hence every Fréchet copula whose weight pair lies in
{λ₁(a,b)+λ₂(b,a) : λ₁,λ₂≥0, λ₁+λ₂≤1} is Schur-below Frechet(a,b) (a mixture of two
Schur-equivalent copulas with independence). For Mardia, t=θ/η∈[0,1] gives
λ₁=(t²+t³)/2, λ₂=(t²-t³)/2. This proves Schur monotonicity in |θ| on each sign
(Table 5 / Appendix A.4.2, * cell), and on the unmixed Fréchet axes.
A convex combination of (a,b), (b,a) and (0,0) is Schur-below Frechet(a,b).
Table 5 (* cell): Mardia increases in both-direction Schur order on θ≥0.
Table 5 (* cell): Mardia decreases in both-direction Schur order on θ≤0.
Fréchet: on the axis b=0, Schur order increases with the M weight.
Fréchet: on the axis a=0, Schur order increases with the W weight.