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Bounds on some geometric functionals of high dimensional Brownian convex hulls and their inverse processes

Probability 2026-01-28 v3 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove two-sided bounds on the expected values of several geometric functionals of the convex hull of Brownian motion in Rn\mathbb{R}^n and their inverse processes. This extends some recent results of McRedmond and Xu (2017), Jovaleki\'{c} (2021), and Cygan, \v{S}ebek, and the first author (2023) from the plane to higher dimensions. Our main result shows that the average time required for the convex hull in Rn\mathbb{R}^n to attain unit volume is at most nn!nn\sqrt[n]{n!}. The proof relies on a novel procedure that embeds an nn-simplex of prescribed volume within the convex hull of the Brownian path run up to a certain stopping time. All of our bounds capture the correct order of asymptotic growth or decay in the dimension nn.

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@article{arxiv.2407.08712,
  title  = {Bounds on some geometric functionals of high dimensional Brownian convex hulls and their inverse processes},
  author = {Hugo Panzo and Evan Socher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.08712},
  year   = {2026}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure