Expected $f$-vector of the Poisson Zero Polytope and Random Convex Hulls in the Half-Sphere

Abstract

We prove an explicit combinatorial formula for the expected number of faces of the zero polytope of the homogeneous and isotropic Poisson hyperplane tessellation in $\mathbb R^d$. The expected $f$-vector is expressed through the coefficients of the polynomial $$ (1+ (d-1)^2x^2) (1+(d-3)^2 x^2) (1+(d-5)^2 x^2) \ldots. $$ Also, we compute explicitly the expected $f$-vector and the expected volume of the spherical convex hull of $n$ random points sampled uniformly and independently from the $d$-dimensional half-sphere. In the case when $n=d+2$, we compute the probability that this spherical convex hull is a spherical simplex, thus solving an analogue of the Sylvester four-point problem on the half-sphere.