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 originating in a bounded convex set lies entirely within . Using techniques from convex geometry, we prove an isoperimetric type inequality, showing that among sets 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}
}