Splitting tessellations in spherical spaces (Q2631850)

Recently [\textit{C. Deuss} et al., Stochastic Processes Appl. 127, No. 5, 1544--1564 (2017; Zbl 1366.52006)], a new tessellation model of the two-dimensional unit sphere has been introduced, which arises as the result of a recursive cell splitting scheme. This model can be seen as the spherical analogue of the STIT tessellation process from Euclidean stochastic geometry. The comprehensive paper under review goes a (big) step further and introduces splitting tessellations and corresponding processes in spherical spaces of dimension $d\geq 2$ and with more general direction distributions. The authors study (among other things) expectations, variances and covariances of spherical curvature measures induced by a splitting tessellation. They also investigate the typical cell distribution and the distribution of the typical spherical maximal cell and determine the expected length and the precise birth time distribution of the typical maximal spherical segment of a splitting tessellation. \par The authors compare their results for tessellations of the sphere whenever possible with those for related STIT-tessellations in $\mathbb{R}^d$ to highlight differences as well as common properties.