The $\beta$-Delaunay tessellation I: Description of the model and geometry of typical cells

Abstract

In this paper two new classes of stationary random simplicial tessellations, the so-called $\beta$- and ${\beta }^{\prime }$-Delaunay tessellations, are introduced. Their construction is based on a space-time paraboloid hull process and generalizes that of the classical Poisson-Delaunay tessellation. The distribution of volume-power weighted typical cells is explicitly identified, establishing thereby a remarkable connection to the classes of $\beta$- and ${\beta }^{\prime }$-polytopes. These representations are used to determine principal characteristics of such cells, including volume moments, expected angle sums and cell intensities.