Abstract
We consider the convex hull of the perturbed point process comprised of n i.i.d. points, each distributed as the sum of a uniform point on the unit sphere and a uniform point in the d-dimensional ball centered at the origin and of radius . This model, inspired by the smoothed complexity analysis introduced in computational geometry (J. Comput. Geom. 7 (2016) 101–144; J. ACM 51 (2004) 385–463), is a perturbation of the classical random polytope. We show that the perturbed point process, after rescaling, converges in the scaling limit to one of five Poisson point processes according to whether α belongs to one of five regimes. The intensity measure of the limit Poisson point process undergoes a transition at the values and and it gives rise to four rescalings for the k-face functional on perturbed data. These rescalings are used to establish explicit expectation asymptotics for the number of k-dimensional faces of the convex hull of either perturbed binomial or Poisson data. In the case of Poisson input, we establish explicit variance asymptotics and a central limit theorem for the number of k-dimensional faces. Finally, it is shown that the rescaled boundary of the convex hull of the perturbed point process converges to the boundary of a parabolic hull process.
Funding Statement
The first author was supported in part by the Institut Universitaire de France, the French ANR grant ASPAG (ANR-17-CE40-0017) and the Norman RIN grant ALENOR.
The second author was supported by NSF grant DMS-1406410 and a Simons Collaboration Grant.
Acknowledgments
A significant part of this research was completed at the Université de Rouen Normandie. J. Yukich is grateful to the Department of Mathematics for its kind hospitality and support. P. Calka thanks O. Devillers, M. Glisse, X. Goaoc and R. Thomasse for introducing him to the topic of smoothed complexity, for sharing a preliminary version of [6], and for useful discussions.
Citation
Pierre Calka. J. E. Yukich. "Convex hulls of perturbed random point sets." Ann. Appl. Probab. 31 (4) 1598 - 1632, August 2021. https://doi.org/10.1214/20-AAP1627
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