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Introduction to stochastic geometry centre for mathematical. Finitetype invariants for curves on surfaces ito, noboru, proceedings of the japan academy, series a, mathematical sciences, 2009. Three viewpoints on the integral geometry of foliations langevin, r. The determination of convex bodies from the mean of random. Integral geometric tools for stochastic geometry albertludwigs. Geometers can see integral geometry at work and may be surprised to learn how classical results from convex geometry have elegant applications in a stochastic setting. Our aim is to study the lipschitzkilling curvatures of excursion sets. Integral geometry, as it is understood here, deals with measures on sets of. Since nl is either zero or two for dkalmost all l, the measure of unoriented lines that meet the a convex set is given by l. This strand of integral geometry goes back to the work of p.
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A specific choice of this measure sets up a complete correspondence with the fundamental problem in the study of geometric probabilities. Random compact sets in this sense are also random closed sets as in matheron 1975. In the following, i want to give an introduction to the integral geometry of polyconvex sets i. Its later developments have proved to be useful in several fields ranging from pure mathematics measure theory, continuous groups to technical and applied. Stereology, spatial statistics, stochastic geometry 2018. We also conjecture bounds for the threshold density of continuum percolation, which are. Kendall, foundations of a theory of random sets, stochastic geometry, wiley, new york and london, 1974.
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