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Poisson hyperplane processes and approximation of convex bodies

Probability 2019-08-27 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A natural model for the approximation of a convex body KK in Rd\mathbb{R}^d by random polytopes is obtained as follows. Take a stationary Poisson hyperplane process in the space, and consider the random polytope ZKZ_K defined as the intersection of all closed halfspaces containing KK that are bounded by hyperplanes of the process not intersecting KK. If ff is a functional on convex bodies, then for increasing intensities of the process, the expectation of the difference f(ZK)f(K)f(Z_K)-f(K) may or may not converge to zero. If it does, then the order of convergence and possible limit relations are of interest. We study these questions if ff is either the hitting functional or the mean width.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09498,
  title  = {Poisson hyperplane processes and approximation of convex bodies},
  author = {Daniel Hug and Rolf Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09498},
  year   = {2019}
}