Absorption probabilities for Gaussian polytopes and regular spherical simplices

DOI10.1017/APR.2020.7MaRDI QIDQ5005026zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zakhar Kabluchko, Dmitry Zaporozhets

Publication date 4 August 2021

Published in Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04968

zbMATH Keywords

absorption probabilityaverage number of facesconic Crofton formulaconvex coneconvex hullerror functionGaussian polytopeGoodman-Pollack modelrandom polytoperegular simplexSchläfli's functionsolid anglespherical geometryWendel's formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry) (52A22) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70)

Abstract: The Gaussian polytope $mathcal{P}_{n,d}$ is the convex hull of $n$ independent standard normally distributed points in $mathbb{R}^d$. We derive explicit expressions for the probability that $mathcal{P}_{n,d}$ contains a fixed point $xinmathbb{R}^d$ as a function of the Euclidean norm of $x$, and the probability that $mathcal{P}_{n,d}$ contains the point $sigmaX$, where $sigmageq0$ is constant and $X$ is a standard normal vector independent of $mathcal{P}_{n,d}$. As a by-product, we also compute the expected number of $k$-faces and the expected volume of $mathcal{P}_{n,d}$, thus recovering the results of Affentranger and Schneider [Discr. and Comput. Geometry, 1992] and Efron [Biometrika, 1965], respectively. All formulas are in terms of the volumes of regular spherical simplices, which, in turn, can be expressed through the standard normal distribution function $Phi(z)$ and its complex version $Phi(iz)$. The main tool used in the proofs is the conic version of the Crofton formula.

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