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Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 2019 Volume 486, Pages 190–199 (Mi znsl6890)

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Random sections of convex bodies

T. Moseeva

Saint Petersburg State University

Abstract: Consider a convex body $D$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We obtain an explicit formula expressing the distribution function of the distance between two random points uniformly and independently chosen in $D$ in terms of the distribution function of the length of a random chord of $D$. As a corollary, we derive Kingman's formula which connects the moments of these distributions.

Key words and phrases: Gaussian random determinant, Wishart matrix, Gaussian random parallelotope, mixed volumes of ellipsoids, location-dispersion ellipsoid, zeros of Gaussian random fields, Bernstein theorem, Kac–Rice formula.

UDC: 519.2+514

Received: 01.11.2019



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