The chord-length distribution of a polyhedron

Abstract: We show that the chord-length distribution function

of any bounded polyhedron has an elementary algebraic form, the expression of which changes in the different subdomains of the

r

-range. In each of these, the

expression only involves, as transcendental contributions, inverse trigonometric functions of argument equal to

R [r,, D e l t a_{1}]

, ,

D e l t a_{1}

being the square root of a 2nd-degree

r

-polynomial and

R [x, y]

a rational function. Besides, as

r

approaches one boundary point (

d e l t a

) of each

r

-subdomain, the derivative of

can only show singularities of the forms

(r - d e l t a)^{- n}

and

(r - d e l t a)^{- m + 1 / 2}

with

n

and

m

appropriate positive integers. Finally, the explicit algebraic expressions of the primitives are also reported.

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