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In this paper, the statistical properties of Newton s method algorithm output in a specific case have been studied. The relative frequency density of this sample converges to a well-defined function, prompting us to explore its…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-07-16 Taki Kirouani

We examine numerically the distribution function $f_K(r)$ of distance $r$ between opposite polygonal nodes for random polygons of $N$ nodes with a fixed knot type $K$. Here we consider three knots such as $\emptyset$, $3_1$ and $3_1 \sharp…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Akihisa Yao , Hiroshi Tsukahara , Tetsuo Deguchi , Takeo Inami

We consider the distribution of free path lengths, or the distance between consecutive bounces of random particles, in an n-dimensional rectangular box. If each particle travels a distance R, then, as R tends to infinity the free path…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Samuel Holmin , Pär Kurlberg , Daniel Månsson

Parallelograms are one of the basic building blocks in two-dimensional tiling. They have important applications in a wide variety of science and engineering fields, such as wireless communication networks, urban transportation, operations…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Yanyan Zhuang , Jianping Pan

This paper continues description of applications of signed chord length distribution started in part I (arXiv:0711.4734). It is shown simple relation between equation for some transfer integrals with source and target bodies and different…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-05-11 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

Motivated by models in engineering and also biology we determine in closed form the probability density function of the angle shaped by two random chords in a fixed disc. Our main result focus on the event in which the intersection locates…

In wireless networks, the knowledge of nodal distances is essential for several areas such as system configuration, performance analysis and protocol design. In order to evaluate distance distributions in random networks, the underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Sunil Srinivasa , Martin Haenggi

Analytical expressions for the distribution of the length of chords corresponding to the affine invariant measure on the set of chords are given for convex polygons. These analytical expressions are a computational improvement over other…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Ricardo García-Pelayo

Where are the intersection points of diagonals of a regular $n$-gon located? What is the distribution of the intersection point of two random chords of a circle? We investigate these and related new questions in geometric probability,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Cynthia Bortolotto , Victor Souza

We present a method to characterize the distribution of length-scales of finite, disordered patterns with, on average, radial symmetry. This method makes it possible to quantify the distribution of characteristic length scales in cases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Andreas A. Hennig , Ilaria Beechey-Newman , Natalya Kizilova , Erika Eiser

When we represent a network of sensors in Euclidean space by a graph, there are two distances between any two nodes that we may consider. One of them is the Euclidean distance. The other is the distance between the two nodes in the graph,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-06-10 Rodrigo S. C. Leao , Valmir C. Barbosa

For the given regular plane polygon and an arbitrary point in the plane of the polygon, the distances from the point to the vertices of the polygon are defined. We proved that there is one more non-congruent regular polygon having the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Mamuka Meskhishvili

Let $K\subset\mathbb S^{d-1}$ be a convex spherical body. Denote by $\Delta(K)$ the distance between two random points in $K$ and denote by $\sigma(K)$ the length of a random chord of $K$. We explicitly express the distribution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Tatiana Moseeva , Alexander Tarasov , Dmitry Zaporozhets

We first review the derivation of the exact expression for the average distance $<r_n>$ of the n-th neighbour of a reference point among a set of N random points distributed uniformly in a unit volume of a D-dimensional geometric space.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pratip Bhattacharyya , Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Anirban Chakraborti

The Dirac's chord method may be suitable in different areas of physics for the representation of certain six-dimensional integrals for a convex body using the probability density of the chord length distribution. For a homogeneous model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

We provide a robust and general algorithm for computing distribution functions associated to induced orthogonal polynomial measures. We leverage several tools for orthogonal polynomials to provide a spectrally-accurate method for a broad…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Akil Narayan

This paper extends earlier work on the distribution in the complex plane of the roots of random polynomials. In this paper, the random polynomials are generalized to random finite sums of given "basis" functions. The basis functions are…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Robert J. Vanderbei

We review some probabilistic properties of the sum-of-digits function of random integers. New asymptotic approximations to the total variation distance and its refinements are also derived. Four different approaches are used: a classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Louis H. Y. Chen , Hsien-Kuei Hwang , Vytas Zacharovas

Although previous research has found several facts concerning chord lengths of regular polytopes, none of these investigations has considered whether any of these facts define relationships that might generalize to the chord lengths of all…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Jessica N. Copher

We study the moments and the distribution of the discrete Choquet integral when regarded as a real function of a random sample drawn from a continuous distribution. Since the discrete Choquet integral includes weighted arithmetic means,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Ivan Kojadinovic , Jean-Luc Marichal