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Monotonicity of expected $f$-vectors for projections of regular polytopes

Probability 2017-04-20 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Let PnP_n be an nn-dimensional regular polytope from one of the three infinite series (regular simplices, regular crosspolytopes, and cubes). Project PnP_n onto a random, uniformly distributed linear subspace of dimension d2d\geq 2. We prove that the expected number of kk-dimensional faces of the resulting random polytope is an increasing function of nn. As a corollary, we show that the expected number of kk-faces of the Gaussian polytope is an increasing function of the number of points used to generate the polytope. Similar results are obtained for the symmetric Gaussian polytope and the Gaussian zonotope.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02496,
  title  = {Monotonicity of expected $f$-vectors for projections of regular polytopes},
  author = {Zakhar Kabluchko and Christoph Thäle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02496},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages