Arak-Clifford-Surgailis tessellations. Basic properties and variance of the total edge length (Q648133)

Let \(W\) be a bounded convex set in the plane. Consider tessellations of \(W\) in which edges are straight line segments of positive length and all vertices are ``T-shaped'', i.e., about 3 line segments, exactly two of which are collinear. The author studies random tessellations of this type based on a Gibbs-weighted planar Poisson line process with intensity measure \(\Lambda\). For general \(\Lambda\), this construction extends a case of the (otherwise more general) model of the author named in the title, who considered stationary isotropic \(\Lambda\). Under suitable conditions, it is shown that these models extend consistently to a thermodynamic limit as \(W\) tends to the whole plane. The proofs make use of a dynamic representation of the tessellation as the space-time diagram of a system of interacting particles. The author obtains explicit expressions for the partition function, and first- and second-order properties of the random length measure induced by the random tessellation. In the isotropic case, pair-correlations and variances are also studied. The model exhibits (to first-order only) similarities to iteration stable (STIT) tessellations.