A local Steiner-type formula for general closed sets and applications (Q1434188)

In the paper under review, the authors introduce support (curvature) measures of an arbitrary closed set \(A\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) by using a local Steiner-type formula for the localized parallel volume of \(A\), and obtain an explicit description of the support measures of \(A\) in terms of generalized principal curvatures defined on \(N(A)\) (the normal bundle of \(A\)) and the \((d-1)\)-dimensional Hausdorff measures on \(N(A)\). Then the authors discuss some of basic the properties of the support measures and various relations to other notions of curvature measures available in the literature. The last part of the paper is devoted to applications of the support measures in stochastic geometry. The authors use the support measures to analyse contact distributions of stationary random closed sets, with particular emphasis on the Boolean model with general compact particles.