Surface area and other measures of ellipsoids

DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2006.08.009MaRDI QIDQ2467341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Rivin

Publication date 21 January 2008

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403375

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic meanintegrationsurface areaellipsoidexpectationlarge dimensionLauricella hypergeometric functionLindberg conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Appell, Horn and Lauricella functions (33C65)

Abstract: We begin by studying the surface area of an ellipsoid in n-dimensional Euclidean space as the function of the lengths of the semi-axes. We write down an explicit formula as an integral over the unit sphere in n-dimensions and use this formula to derive convexity properties of the surface area, to give sharp estimates for the surface area of a large-dimensional ellipsoid, to produce asymptotic formulas for the surface area and the emph{isoperimetric ratio} of an ellipsoid in large dimensions, and to give an expression for the surface in terms of the Lauricella hypergeometric function. We then write down general formulas for the volumes of projections of ellipsoids, and use them to extend the above-mentioned results to give explicit and approximate formulas for the higher integral mean curvatures of ellipsoids. Some of our results can be expressed as ISOPERIMETRIC results for higher mean curvatures.

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