Approximation of zonoids by zonotopes in fixed directions

DOI10.1007/BF02574016MaRDI QIDQ1329189zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 1 December 1994

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/131309

estimation projection body zonoid zonotope

Convexity and finite-dimensional Banach spaces (including special norms, zonoids, etc.) (aspects of convex geometry) (52A21) Approximation by convex sets (52A27) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05)

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The authors give a constructive proof for the following result: If \(Z\) is a zonoid (a ``continuous sum of segments) in \(\mathbb{R}^ d\) and if \(u_ 1,\dots,u_ k\) are unit vectors, there always exists a zonotope \(Z'\) which is the sum of at most \(k\) segments and such that \(Z\) and \(Z'\) have the same supporting hyperplanes with outer normals \(\pm u_ 1,\dots, \pm u_ k\). In the authors' approach, \(Z'\) is obtained as the solution of a linear program. As an application to stochastic geometry, the authors describe a method for the estimation of the directional distribution of a random fibre process. Also some further geometric consequences of the main result are described; they are related to the interpretation of zonoids as projection bodies.

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