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In this work we study a class of random convex sets that "interpolate" between polytopes and zonotopes. These sets arise from considering a $q^{th}$-moment ($q\geq 1$) of an average of order statistics of $1$-dimensional marginals of a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-06 David Alonso-Gutiérrez , Joscha Prochno

A question related to some conjectures of Lutwak about the affine quermassintegrals of a convex body $K$ in ${\mathbb R}^n$ asks whether for every convex body $K$ in ${\mathbb R}^n$ and all $1\leqslant k\leqslant n$ $$\Phi_{[k]}(K):={\rm…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Giorgos Chasapis , Nikos Skarmogiannis

A new intrinsic volume metric is introduced for the class of convex bodies in $\mathbb{R}^n$. As an application, an inequality is proved for the asymptotic best approximation of the Euclidean unit ball by arbitrarily positioned polytopes…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Florian Besau , Steven Hoehner

We prove asymptotic formulas for the expectation of the vertex number and missed area of uniform random disc-polygons in convex disc-polygons. Our statements are the $r$-convex analogues of the classical results of R\'enyi and Sulanke…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Ferenc Fodor , Péter Kevei , Viktor Vígh

In this paper we prove asymptotic upper bounds on the variance of the number of vertices and missed area of inscribed random disc-polygons in smooth convex discs whose boundary is $C^2_+$. We also consider a circumscribed variant of this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Ferenc Fodor , Viktor Vígh

Pick $d+1$ points uniformly at random on the unit sphere in $\mathbb R^d$. What is the expected value of the angle sum of the simplex spanned by these points? Choose $n$ points uniformly at random in the $d$-dimensional ball. What is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Zakhar Kabluchko

We examine how the measure and the number of vertices of the convex hull of a random sample of $n$ points from an arbitrary probability measure in $\mathbf{R}^d$ relates to the wet part of that measure. This extends classical results for…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Imre Bárány , Matthieu Fradelizi , Xavier Goaoc , Alfredo Hubard , Günter Rote

We prove power series expansions for the expectations of the number of vertices and missed area of random $L$-convex polygons in planar convex bodies with sufficiently smooth boundaries. Random $L$-convex polygons arise as the intersection…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Ferenc Fodor , Dániel I. Papvári

Denote by ${\mathcal K}^d$ the family of convex bodies in $E^d$ and by $w(C)$ the minimal width of $C \in {\mathcal K}^d$. We ask for the greatest number $\Lambda_n ({\mathcal K}^d)$ such that every $C \in {\mathcal K}^d$ contains a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Marek Lassak

Coverings of convex bodies have emerged as a central component in the design of efficient solutions to approximation problems involving convex bodies. Intuitively, given a convex body $K$ and $\epsilon> 0$, a covering is a collection of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

For a fixed $k\in\{1,\dots,d\}$ consider random vectors $X_0,\dots, X_{k}\in\mathbb R^d$ with an arbitrary spherically symmetric joint density function. Let $A$ be any non-singular $d\times d$ matrix. We show that the $k$-dimensional volume…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Friedrich Götze , Anna Gusakova , Dmitry Zaporozhets

We show that the expected value of the mean width of a random polytope generated by $N$ random vectors ($n\leq N\leq e^{\sqrt n}$) uniformly distributed in an isotropic convex body in $\R^n$ is of the order $\sqrt{\log N} L_K$. This…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-29 David Alonso-Gutierrez , Joscha Prochno

The notion of ball convexity, considered in finite dimensional real Banach spaces, is a natural and useful extension of usual convexity; one replaces intersections of half-spaces by suitable intersections of balls. A subset $S$ of a normed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Thomas Jahn , Christian Richter , Horst Martini

The celebrated Dvoretzky theorem asserts that every $N$-dimensional convex body admits central sections of dimension $d = \Omega(\log N)$, which is nearly spherical. For many instances of convex bodies, typically unit balls with respect to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Stanislaw Szarek , Pawel Wolff

This paper considers the question of how to succinctly approximate a multidimensional convex body by a polytope. Given a convex body $K$ of unit diameter in Euclidean $d$-dimensional space (where $d$ is a constant) and an error parameter…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Rahul Arya , Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

We study two notions. One is that of spindle convexity. A set of circumradius not greater than one is spindle convex if, for any pair of its points, it contains every short circular arc of radius at least one, connecting them. The other…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Karoly Bezdek , Zsolt Langi , Marton Naszodi , Peter Papez

We study the probability distribution of the area and the number of vertices of random polygons in a convex set $K\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. The novel aspect of our approach is that it yields uniform estimates for all convex sets…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-13 John Pardon

For $N\geq n$, let $P_{N,n}$ be a random polytope in ${\mathbb R}^n$ with vertices $\pm X_i$, $1\leq i\leq N$, where $X_1,\dots,X_N$ are i.i.d standard Gaussian vectors in ${\mathbb R}^n$. Random polytopes $P_{N,n}$, as well as their duals,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Han Huang , Konstantin Tikhomirov

Short and transparent proofs of central limit theorems for intrinsic volumes of random polytopes in smooth convex bodies are presented. They combine different tools such as estimates for floating bodies with Stein's method from probability…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-06 Christoph Thaele , Nicola Turchi , Florian Wespi

An asymptotic formula is proved for the expected $T$-functional of the convex hull of independent and identically distributed random points sampled from the Euclidean unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^n$ according to an arbitrary positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Steven Hoehner , Ben Li , Michael Roysdon , Christoph Thäle