How likely is Buffon's needle to fall near a planar Cantor set?

DOI10.2140/pjm.2002.204.473zbMath1046.28006OpenAlexW1968412787MaRDI QIDQ701269

Yuval Peres, B. M. Solomyak

Publication date: 22 October 2002

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.2002.204.473

zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff measureCartesian squareself-similar setsBesicovitch's theoremFavard lengthmiddle-half Cantor set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Fractals (28A80) Hausdorff and packing measures (28A78)

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