Central limit theorems for random polygons in an arbitrary convex set
Probability
2015-03-13 v3
Abstract
We study the probability distribution of the area and the number of vertices of random polygons in a convex set . The novel aspect of our approach is that it yields uniform estimates for all convex sets without imposing any regularity conditions on the boundary . Our main result is a central limit theorem for both the area and the number of vertices, settling a well-known conjecture in the field. We also obtain asymptotic results relating the growth of the expectation and variance of these two functionals.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1003.4209,
title = {Central limit theorems for random polygons in an arbitrary convex set},
author = {John Pardon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.4209},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOP568 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)