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A note on volume thresholds for random polytopes

Metric Geometry 2021-11-16 v2 Probability

Abstract

We study the expected volume of random polytopes generated by taking the convex hull of independent identically distributed points from a given distribution. We show that for log-concave distributions supported on convex bodies, we need at least exponentially many (in dimension) samples for the expected volume to be significant and that super-exponentially many samples suffice for concave measures when their parameter of concavity is positive.

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@article{arxiv.2004.01119,
  title  = {A note on volume thresholds for random polytopes},
  author = {Debsoumya Chakraborti and Tomasz Tkocz and Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.01119},
  year   = {2021}
}
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