• DocumentCode
    1087288
  • Title

    Random exploration of the three regular polytopes

  • Author

    Blachman, Nelson M.

  • Author_Institution
    GTE Gov. Syst. Corp., Mountain View, CA, USA
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2081
  • Lastpage
    2087
  • Abstract
    There are just three regular polytopes (the hypercube, cross polytope and the simplex) in Euclidean (n>4) space. We calculate their dimensions, including the distance from the centroid to the periphery in a random direction-that of a white Gaussian-noise vector. As n→∞, this distance becomes very predictable. It differs from the distance near which almost all of the volume and surface of the polytope lie
  • Keywords
    Gaussian noise; hypercube networks; information theory; random processes; signal processing; Euclidean space; centroid; cross polytope; dimensions; distance; hypercube; periphery; random direction; random exploration; regular polytopes; signal subspace; simplex; surface; volume; white Gaussian noise vector; Constellation diagram; Gaussian processes; Geometry; Hypercubes; Information theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.476340
  • Filename
    476340