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Conical tessellations associated with Weyl chambers

Probability 2021-06-23 v3 Combinatorics Metric Geometry

Abstract

We consider dd-dimensional random vectors Y1,,YnY_1,\dots,Y_n that satisfy a mild general position assumption a.s. The hyperplanes \begin{align*} (Y_i-Y_j)^\perp\;\; (1\le i<j\le n). \end{align*} generate a conical tessellation of the Euclidean dd-space which is closely related to the Weyl chambers of type An1A_{n-1}. We determine the number of cones in this tessellation and show that it is a.s. constant. For a random cone chosen uniformly at random from this random tessellation, we compute expectations for a general series of geometric functionals. These include the face numbers, as well as the conic intrinsic volumes and the conic quermassintegrals. Under the additional assumption of exchangeability on Y1,,YnY_1,\ldots,Y_n, the same is done for the dual random cones which have the same distribution as the positive hull of Y1Y2,,Yn1YnY_1-Y_2,\ldots, Y_{n-1}-Y_n conditioned on the event that this positive hull is not equal to Rd\mathbb R^d. All these expectations turn out to be distribution-free. Similarly, we consider the conical tessellation induced by the hyperplanes \begin{align*} (Y_i+Y_j)^\perp\;\; (1 \le i<j\le n),\quad (Y_i-Y_j)^\perp\;\; (1\le i<j\le n),\quad Y_i^\perp\;\; (1\le i\le n) \end{align*} This tessellation is closely related to the Weyl chambers of type BnB_n. We compute the number of cones in this tessellation and the expectations of various geometric functionals for random cones drawn from this random tessellation. The main ingredient in the proofs is a connection between the number of faces of the tessellation and the number of faces of the Weyl chambers of the corresponding type that are intersected by a certain linear subspace in general position.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2004.10466,
  title  = {Conical tessellations associated with Weyl chambers},
  author = {Thomas Godland and Zakhar Kabluchko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10466},
  year   = {2021}
}

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34 pages, 2 figures

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