Convex hulls in the hyperbolic space (Q715188)
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Convex hulls in the hyperbolic space (English)
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2 November 2012
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This is a very nicely written paper which leaves the reader longing to know the answer to several connected open questions. The main result says that the volume of a polytope in the hyperbolic space is sublinear with respect to its number of vertices, more precisely the volume of the convex hull of \(N\) points in the hyperbolic space \(\mathbb{H}^n\) is smaller than \(2(2\sqrt{\pi})^n/\Gamma(n/2)\). As an application, interesting in itself, it is shown that there exists a constant \(C_n\), depending only on \(n\), such that for any set \(A \subset \mathbb{H}^n\), the set \(A_1\) of points of distance smaller than \(1\) from \(A\) satisfies the inequality \(\mathrm{Vol}(\mathrm{Conv}(A_1)) \leq C_n \mathrm{Vol} (A_1)\).
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hyperbolic polytope
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Klein model
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volume
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