Random polygons in plane convex sets
Random polygons in plane convex sets
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John Pardon, Princeton University
Consider picking N random points in a convex set K and forming their convex hull KN. Recently, there have been a number of results concerning the asymptotic behavior of random variables such as the area and number of vertices of KN. These are, however, all limited to two special cases: 1) K is a polygon and 2) K is "smooth". I will discuss work which obtains uniform bounds over the family of all convex sets K4. These results include central limit theorems for the area and number of vertices of KN.