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Let \mathcal Z_d be the zero cell of a d-dimensional, isotropic and stationary Poisson hyperplane tessellation. We study the asymptotic behavior of the expected number of k-dimensional faces of \mathcal Z_d, as d\to \infty. For example, we show that the expected number of hyperfaces of \mathcal Z_d is asymptotically equivalent to \sqrt {2\pi /3}\, d^{3/2}, as d\to \infty. We also prove that the expected solid angle of a random cone spanned by d random vectors that are independent and uniformly distributed on the unit upper half-sphere in \mathbb R^{d} is asymptotic to \sqrt 3 \pi ^{-d}, as d\to \infty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new, direct proof of the formulas for the conic intrinsic volumes of the Weyl chambers of types An-1, Bn and Dn is given. These formulas express the conic intrinsic volumes in terms of the Stirling numbers of the first kind and their B- and D-analogues. The proof involves an explicit determination of the internal and external angles of the faces of the Weyl chambers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study three families of polyhedral cones whose sections are regular simplices, cubes, and crosspolytopes. We compute solid angles and conic intrinsic volumes of these cones. We show that several quantities appearing in stochastic geometry can be expressed through these conic intrinsic volumes. A list of such quantities includes internal and external solid angles of regular simplices and crosspolytopes, the probability that a (symmetric) Gaussian random polytope or the Gaussian zonotope contains a given point, the expected number of faces of the intersection of a regular polytope with a random linear subspace passing through its centre, and the expected number of faces of the projection of a regular polytope onto a random linear subspace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pick d + 1 points uniformly at random on the unit sphere in R d. What is the expected value of the angle sum of the simplex spanned by these points? Choose n points uniformly at random in the d -dimensional ball. What is the expected number of faces of their convex hull? We answer these and some other, seemingly unrelated, questions of stochastic geometry. To this end, we compute expected internal angles of random simplices whose vertices are independent random points sampled from one of the following d -dimensional distributions: (i) the beta distribution with the density proportional to (1 − ‖ x ‖ 2) β , where x is belongs to the unit ball in R d ; (ii) the beta' distribution with the density proportional to (1 + ‖ x ‖ 2) − β on the whole of R d. These results imply explicit formulae for the expected face numbers of the following random polytopes: (a) the typical Poisson-Voronoi cell; (b) the zero cell of the Poisson hyperplane tessellation; (c) beta and beta' polytopes defined as convex hulls of i.i.d. samples from the corresponding distributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]