Poisson asymptotics for random projections of points on a high-dimensional sphere (Q532591)

Consider a collection of points \(x_1,\dots,x_n\) on the \((d-1)\)-dimensional unit sphere and assume that the sum of \(\min((1-|\langle x_i,x_j\rangle|)^{-1/2},n)\) taken over all pairs \(i<j\) such that \(|\langle x_i,x_j\rangle|\geq\varepsilon\) is of order \(o(n^2)\) for each \(\varepsilon>0\). The authors prove that, as \(d\to\infty\) and \(n\to\infty\), the normalised projection of the points onto a random direction converges to the Poisson process on \(\mathbb{R}\) with intensity \((2\pi)^{-1/2}\exp(-a^2/2)\), \(a\in\mathbb{R}\).