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A Duality for Poisson Flats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Rolf Schneider*
Affiliation:
Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg
*
Postal address: Mathematisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Eckerstr. 1, D 79104 Freiburg i Br, Germany. Email address: rschnei@ruf.uni-freiburg.de

Abstract

In keeping with the intersection density of a stationary Poisson process of r-flats in Euclidean d-space, where rd/2, we introduce a notion of closeness, called proximity, for such processes if r < d/2. It is shown that the two notions are connected by a duality: the proximity of a stationary Poisson r-flat process is, up to a constant factor, the intersection density of a certain unique stationary Poisson (d − r)-flat process.

Type
Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1999 

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