Threshold phenomena for random cones (Q2117356)

The present paper continuous investigations of the threshold phenomena for random convex cones, see [the authors, Stud. Sci. Math. Hung. 58, No. 4, 489--504 (2021; Zbl 1499.52006)]. Let \(\phi\) be a probability measure on \(\mathbb{R}^d\) which is even (invariant under reflection in the origin O) and assigns measure zero to each hyperplane through the origin. For natural \(n\), the \((\phi, n)\)-Cover-Efron cone \(C_n\) is defined as the positive hull of \(n\) independent random vectors \(X_1\),\ldots,\(X_n\) with distribution \(\phi\), under the condition that this positive hull is different from \(\mathbb{R}^d\). The intersection \(C_n\cap \mathbb{S}^{d - 1}\) with the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S}^{d - 1}\) is a spherical random polytope, contained in some closed hemisphere (it is convenient to work with polyhedral cones instead of spherical polytopes). In this paper, the authors consider a model of random polyhedral convex cones that was introduced by Cover and Efron and more closely investigated in [the authors, Discrete Comput. Geom. 56, No. 2, 395--426 (2016; Zbl 1353.52004)]. For \(k\in \{1,\ldots, d - 1\}\), let \(f_k(C_n)\) denote the number of \(k\)-dimensional faces of the cone \(C_n\) (equivalently, the number of \((k - 1)\)-dimensional faces of the spherical polytope \(C_n\cap \mathbb{S}^{d - 1}\)). The authors investigate the asymptotic behavior of the expectation \(Ef_k(C_n)\), as \(d\) tends to infinity and \(n\) grows suitably with \(d\). In a similar way the authors treat the solid angle and more generally the Grassmann angles.