The distribution of volume reductions induced by isotropic random projections.

In earlier work, we investigated the dynamics of shape when rectangles are split into two. Further exploration, into the more general issues of Markovian sequences of rectangular shapes, has identified four particularly appealing problems. These problems, which lead to interesting invariant distributions on [0,1], have motivating links with the classical works of Blaschke, Crofton, D. G. Kendall, Rényi and Sulanke.