Intrinsic volumes of ellipsoids

Authors Anna Gusakova, Evgeny Spodarev, Dmitry Zaporozhets

Publication date 28 June 2022

Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Mixed volumes and related topics in convex geometry (52A39)

Abstract: We deduce explicit formulae for the intrinsic volumes of an ellipsoid in

m a t h b b R^{d}

,

d g e 2

, in terms of elliptic integrals. Namely, for an ellipsoid

m a t h c a l E s u b s e t m a t h b b R^{d}

with semiaxes

a_{1}, l d o t s, a_{d}

we show that �egin{align*} V_k({mathcal E})=kappa_ksum_{i=1}^da_i^2s_{k-1}(a_1^2,dots,a_{i-1}^2,a_{i+1}^2,dots,a_d^2)int_0^{infty}{t^{k-1}over(a_i^2t^2+1)prod_{j=1}^dsqrt{a_j^2t^2+1}}, m{d}t end{align*} for all

k = 1, l d o t s, d

, where

s_{k - 1}

is the

(k - 1)

-th elementary symmetric polynomial and

k a p p a_{k}

is the volume of the

k

-dimensional unit ball. Some examples of the intrinsic volumes

V_{k}

with low and high

k

are given where our formulae look particularly simple. As an application we derive new formulae for the expected

k

-dimensional volume of random

k

-simplex in an ellipsoid and random Gaussian

k

-simplex.

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