When does the union of random spherical caps become connected?

DOI10.1007/BF02530553MaRDI QIDQ1768136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xianqiang Yang

Publication date 14 March 2005

Published in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02530553

zbMATH Keywords

coverage problemrandom spherical caps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05)

Review text

Let \(U\) denote the part of the surface covered by \(N\) random spherical caps \(c_1, c_2,\dots,c_N\) of the same angular radius \(\Theta\) placed on the surface of a unit sphere in 3-space. It is proved that if \(c>\sqrt 2\), then the probability that \(U\) is connected tends to 1 as \(N\to 0\), while if \(c<1\), then the probability that \(U\) is connected tends to 0 as \(N\to\infty\).

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