The beauty of random polytopes inscribed in the 2-sphere
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Consider a random set of points on the unit sphere in ℝd, which can be either uniformly sampled or a Poisson point process. Its convex hull is a random inscribed polytope, whose boundary approximates the sphere. We focus on the case d = 3, for which there are elementary proofs and fascinating formulas for metric properties. In particular, we study the fraction of acute facets, the expected intrinsic volumes, the total edge length, and the distance to a fixed point. Finally we generalize the results to the ellipsoid with homeoid density.
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2021-10-25
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Experimental Mathematics
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant no. 788183, from the Wittgenstein Prize, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), grant no. Z 342-N31, and from the DFG Collaborative Research Center TRR 109, ‘Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics’, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), grant no. I 02979-N35.
We are grateful to Dmitry Zaporozhets and Christoph Thäle for valuable comments and for directing us to relevant references. We also thank to Anton Mellit for a useful discussion on Bessel functions.
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