Facets of high-dimensional Gaussian polytopes (Q6181329)

The convex hull of \(n\) independent standard Gaussian samples from \(\mathbb{R}^d\) is known as the Gaussian polytope \(P_n^{(d)}\). The authors study the expected number of facets of the Gaussian polytope when the dimension \(d\) grows with the sample size \(n\). As a main result an explicit asymptotic formula is derived which holds whenever \(d/n \rightarrow 0\) (Theorem 1.1). This result extends results for fixed dimension \(d\) of \textit{A. Rényi} and \textit{R. Sulanke} [Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheor. Verw. Geb. 2, 75--84 (1963; Zbl 0118.13701)] and \textit{H. Raynaud} [J. Appl. Probab. 7, 35--48 (1970; Zbl 0192.53602)]. Moreover, the authors derive asymptotic values when \(d\) is close to \(n\) (Theorem 1.3) which complements an earlier result of \textit{F. Affentranger} and \textit{R. Schneider} [Discrete Comput. Geom. 7, No. 3, 219--226 (1992; Zbl 0751.52002)].