Random polytopes on the torus
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Abstract:
The expected volume of the convex hull of $n$ random points chosen independently and uniformly on the $d$-dimensional torus is determined.References
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- © Copyright 1985 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 93 (1985), 312-316
- MSC: Primary 60D05; Secondary 52A22
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1985-0770543-1
- MathSciNet review: 770543