Intrinsic Volumes of the Maximal Polytope Process in Higher Dimensional STIT Tessellations

Abstract

Stationary and isotropic iteration stable random tessellations are considered, which can be constructed by a random process of cell division. The collection of maximal polytopes at a fixed time $t$ within a convex window $W\subset {\mathbb{R}}^d$ is regarded and formulas for mean values, variances, as well as a characterization of certain covariance measures are proved. The focus is on the case $d\ge 3$, which is different from the planar one, treated separately in \cite{ST2}. Moreover, a multivariate limit theorem for the vector of suitably rescaled intrinsic volumes is established, leading in each component -- in sharp contrast to the situation in the plane -- to a non-Gaussian limit.

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