Around Sylvester's question in the plane
Probability
2015-11-13 v1
Abstract
Pick points uniformly and independently at random in a compact convex set with non empty interior of the plane, and let be the probability that the 's are the vertices of a convex polygon. Blaschke 1917 \cite{Bla} proved that , where is a disk and a triangle. In the present paper we prove . One of the main ingredients of our approach is a new formula for which permits to prove that Steiner symmetrization does not decrease , and that shaking does not increases it (this is the method Blaschke used in the case). We conjecture that the new formula we provide will lead in the future to the complete proof that , for any .
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@article{arxiv.1511.03658,
title = {Around Sylvester's question in the plane},
author = {Jean-François Marckert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.03658},
year = {2015}
}