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Estranged facets and $k$-facets of Gaussian random point sets

Probability 2023-07-04 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Gaussian random polytopes have received a lot of attention especially in the case where the dimension is fixed and the number of points goes to infinity. Our focus is on the less studied case where the dimension goes to infinity and the number of points is proportional to the dimension dd. We study several natural quantities associated to Gaussian random polytopes in this setting. First, we show that the expected number of facets is equal to C(α)d+o(d)C(\alpha)^{d+o(d)} where C(α)C(\alpha) is some constant which depends on the constant of proportionality α\alpha. We also extend this result to the expected number of kk-facets. We then consider the more difficult problem of the asymptotics of the expected number of pairs of estranged facets\textit{estranged facets} of a Gaussian random polytope. When n=2dn=2d, we determined the constant CC so that the expected number of pairs of estranged facets is equal to Cd+o(d)C^{d+o(d)}.

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@article{arxiv.2307.00687,
  title  = {Estranged facets and $k$-facets of Gaussian random point sets},
  author = {Brett Leroux and Luis Rademacher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.00687},
  year   = {2023}
}