Random projections of regular simplices (Q1182988)

For a polytope \(P\subset\mathbb{R}^ n\) and a random \(d\)-dimensional subspace \(\Lambda\) in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) with isotropic distribution let \(\Pi_ dP\) denote the orthogonal projection of \(P\) onto \(\Lambda\) and \(f_ k(\Pi_ dP)\) the number of \(k\)-faces of \(\Pi_ dP\). The authors present a formula for the expectation \(\mathbb{E} f_ k(\Pi_ dP)\) involving internal and external angles of \(P\). They then derive an asymptotic expression for \(\mathbb{E} f_ k(\Pi_ dP)\) (as \(n\) tends to infinity) in the case \(P\) is an \(n\)-dimensional regular simplex.