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Expected $f$-vector of the Poisson Zero Polytope and Random Convex Hulls in the Half-Sphere

Probability 2020-08-18 v4 Combinatorics Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove an explicit combinatorial formula for the expected number of faces of the zero polytope of the homogeneous and isotropic Poisson hyperplane tessellation in Rd\mathbb R^d. The expected ff-vector is expressed through the coefficients of the polynomial (1+(d1)2x2)(1+(d3)2x2)(1+(d5)2x2). (1+ (d-1)^2x^2) (1+(d-3)^2 x^2) (1+(d-5)^2 x^2) \ldots. Also, we compute explicitly the expected ff-vector and the expected volume of the spherical convex hull of nn random points sampled uniformly and independently from the dd-dimensional half-sphere. In the case when n=d+2n=d+2, we compute the probability that this spherical convex hull is a spherical simplex, thus solving an analogue of the Sylvester four-point problem on the half-sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1901.10528,
  title  = {Expected $f$-vector of the Poisson Zero Polytope and Random Convex Hulls in the Half-Sphere},
  author = {Zakhar Kabluchko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.10528},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

31 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables. Minor changes compared to the previous version. Several references added. To appear in Mathematika. This is a preprint version containing tables