Estimates from below of the Buffon noodle probability for undercooked noodles
Abstract
Let be the -th generation in the construction of the middle-half Cantor set. The Cartesian square of consists of squares of side-length . The chance that a long needle thrown at random in the unit square will meet is essentially the average length of the projections of , also known as the Favard length of . A result due to Bateman and Volberg \cite{BV} shows that a lower estimate for this Favard length is . We may bend the needle at each stage, giving us what we will call a noodle, and ask whether the uniform lower estimate still holds for these so-called Buffon noodle probabilities. If so, we call the sequence of noodles undercooked. We will define a few classes of noodles and prove that they are undercooked. In particular, we are interested in the case when the noodles are circular arcs of radius . We will show that if , then the circular arcs are undercooked noodles.
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@article{arxiv.0811.1302,
title = {Estimates from below of the Buffon noodle probability for undercooked noodles},
author = {Matthew Bond and Alexander Volberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1302},
year = {2008}
}
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10 pages