Central diagonal sections of the n-cube

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAA254MaRDI QIDQ6340878arXivFDO

Authors Ferenc A. Bartha, Ferenc Fodor, Bernardo González Merino

Publication date 17 May 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/IMRN/RNAA254

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry) (52A22)

arXiv classification

math.FAmath.MG

Abstract: We prove that the volume of central hyperplane sections of a unit cube in $mathbb{R}^n$ orthogonal to a diameter of the cube is a strictly monotonically increasing function of the dimension for $ngeq3$. Our argument uses an integral formula that goes back to P'olya cite{P} (see also cite{H} and cite{B86}) for the volume of central sections of the cube, and Laplace's method to estimate the asymptotic behaviour of the integral. First we show that monotonicity holds starting from some specific $n_0$. Then, using interval arithmetic (IA) and automatic differentiation (AD), we compute an explicit bound for $n_0$, and check the remaining cases between $3$ and $n_0$ by direct computation.

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