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Buffon Needle Problem Over Convex Sets

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2024-11-27 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We solve a variant of the classical Buffon Needle problem. More specifically, we inspect the probability that a randomly oriented needle of length ll originating in a bounded convex set XR2X\subset\mathbb{R}^2 lies entirely within XX. Using techniques from convex geometry, we prove an isoperimetric type inequality, showing that among sets XX with equal perimeter, the disk maximizes this probability.

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@article{arxiv.2411.16935,
  title  = {Buffon Needle Problem Over Convex Sets},
  author = {M. Dannenberg and W. Hagerstrom and G. Hart and A. Iosevich and T. Le and I. Li and N. Skerrett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16935},
  year   = {2024}
}
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