Intersections of random hypersurfaces and visibility (Q1056969)

For a wide class of stationary random hypersurfaces in \({\mathbb{R}}^ d\) the notion of the projection body is introduced. It turns out that this convex body, a very special case of which is Matheron's ''Steiner compact'' associated with a Poisson process of hyperplanes, contains most of the information concerning certain intersection properties of the random hypersurface, while its polar reciprocal set is closely connected with the behaviour of the random hypersurface in visibility problems. This enables one to give a unified treatment of several intersection and visibility problems for random hypersurfaces. A detailed investigation of the case where the random hypersurface is generated by a Poisson process is given separately.