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A flat membrane with given shape is displayed; two points in the membrane are randomly selected; the probability that the separation between the points have a specified value is sought. A simple method to evaluate the probability density is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. F. F. Teixeira

I introduce a family of closeness functions between causal Lorentzian geometries of finite volume and arbitrary underlying topology. When points are randomly scattered in a Lorentzian manifold, with uniform density according to the volume…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Luca Bombelli

We construct symmetric representations of distributions over two-dimensional plane with given mean values as convex combinations of distributions with supports containing not more than three points and with the same mean values.

Probability · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Victor Domansky

In this paper, the following two theorems are proved: $(1)$ every spherical convex body $W$ of constant width $\Delta (W) \geq \frac{\pi}{2}$ may be covered by a disk of radius $\Delta(W) + \arcsin \left( \frac{2\sqrt{3}}{3} \cdot \cos…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Michał Musielak

The setting for this brief paper is R^3. Distance between two spheres is understood as distance delta between spherical centers. For instance, a Reuleaux tetrahedron T is the intersection of four unit balls satisfying delta=1 pairwise.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-24 Steven R. Finch

We show that there is a constant $K > 0$ such that for all $N, s \in \N$, $s \le N$, the point set consisting of $N$ points chosen uniformly at random in the $s$-dimensional unit cube $[0,1]^s$ with probability at least $1-\exp(-\Theta(s))$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Benjamin Doerr

We study the spherical cap packing problem with a probabilistic approach. Such probabilistic considerations result in an asymptotic sharp universal uniform bound on the maximal inner product between any set of unit vectors and a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Kai Zhang

We introduce the notion of a bivariate random discrete copula on an equidistant mesh and explore its stochastic properties. A random discrete copula is a discrete random field, hence, its value at a given point on the mesh is a random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Damjana Kokol Bukovšek , Blaž Mojškerc , Nik Stopar

The chord length probability density of the regular octahedron is explicitly evaluated throughout its full range of distances by separating it into three contributions respectively due to the pairs of facets opposite to each other or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Salvino Ciccariello

Motivated by the Blaschke-Santal\'o inequality, we define for a convex body K in ${\bf R}^n$ and for $t \in {\bf R}$ the Santal\'o-regions S(K,t) of K. We investigate properties of these sets and relate them to a concept of Affine…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Mathieu Meyer , Elisabeth Werner

We investigate the asymptotic properties of random polytopes arising as convex hulls of $n$ independent random points sampled from a family of block-beta distributions. Notably, this family includes the uniform distribution on a product of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Florian Besau , Anna Gusakova , Christoph Thäle

This article presents the precise asymptotical distribution of two types of critical transmission radii, defined in terms of $k-$connectivity and the minimum vertex degree, for a random geometry graph distributed over a unit-volume region…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Jie Ding , Xiang Wei , Shuai Ma

Fix $t\in [1,\infty]$. Let $S$ be an atomic commutative semigroup and, for all $x\in S$, let $\mathscr{L}_t(S):=\{\|f\|_t:f\in Z(x)\}$ be the "$t$-length set" of $x$ (using the standard $l_p$-space definition of $\|\cdot\|_t$). The…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Christopher O'Neill , Vadim Ponomarenko , Eric Ren

We study the lower bound for Koldobsky's slicing inequality. We show that there exists a measure $\mu$ and a symmetric convex body $K \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$, such that for all $\xi\in S^{n-1}$ and all $t\in \mathbb{R},$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Bo'az Klartag , Galyna V. Livshyts

I investigate the caustics produced by the fall of collisionless dark matter in and out of a galaxy in the limit of negligible velocity dispersion. The outer caustics are spherical shells enveloping the galaxy. The inner caustics are rings.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Sikivie

Most of the work on checking spherical symmetry assumptions on the distribution of the $p$-dimensional random vector $Y$ has its focus on statistical tests for the null hypothesis of exact spherical symmetry. In this paper, we take a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-26 Lujia Bai , Holger Dette

In this paper we present several results on the expected complexity of a convex hull of $n$ points chosen uniformly and independently from a convex shape. (i) We show that the expected number of vertices of the convex hull of $n$ points,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Sariel Har-Peled

We consider the space of complete and separable metric spaces which are equipped with a probability measure. A notion of convergence is given based on the philosophy that a sequence of metric measure spaces converges if and only if all…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-13 Andreas Greven , Peter Pfaffelhuber , Anita Winter

We present source code for the computer algebra system Mathematica that analyzes the distribution of nearby Galaxies using SDSS data. Download instructions are given, thus within 10 minutes, the reader can verify that galaxies are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-10 Alexander Unzicker , Julius Fischer

Let $\mu$ be a probability distribution on $\mathbb{R}^d$ which assigns measure zero to every hyperplane and $S$ a set of points sampled independently from $\mu$. What can be said about the expected combinatorial structure of the convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Brett Leroux