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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 17638
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    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 17638

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      26 June 1992
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      convex hull of random points
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      extremal properties
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      expected area
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      [For the entire collection see Zbl 0726.00015.] For fixed area of a compact convex set \(K\) in \(\mathbb{R}^ 2\) the maximal area of the convex hull of \(n\) i.i.d. uniformly distributed random points in \(K\) is obtained when \(K\) is a triangle. (W. Blaschke proved this for \(n=3\).) Moreover, for higher dimensions \(d\) a similar result is shown for polytopes with at most \(d+2\) vertices.
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