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Low Dimensional Topology

During this quantity, that's devoted to H. Seifert, are papers in response to talks given on the Isle of Thorns convention on low dimensional topology held in 1982.

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Which, by calculating 9 the Jacobian, is seen to be nidi,. 21) i by itself therefore has the same distribution. This could also have been seen by observing that the n + 1 intervals are jointly distributed in the same way as the n+l intervals obtained by placing n+ 1 points at random on a circle of unit circumference. , Yk _, - Yk and Y^g,... . ^(\ we get _X \w fc for the joint distribution of of Ik+l s . 23) is obviously that serving the distribution of I v This is We can relate the distribution of n points in an interval to a Poisson process in two ways.

8 A more interesting situation arises when we have a fixed number of random points in an interval whose length we may take These as unity. , /n+1 Suppose that the interval is (0, 1) and that we have n random points whose coordiwill divide the interval into . X nates Then 19 ... 9 X . dXn (Q X^ ^ (0, 1). 19) 1). This can be regarded as a joint uniform distribution on an w-dimensional cube. ,Xn arranged in increasing order: X < Y < Y < Then the cube is ... dY*(Q < F l t is < ... 20) 1). then have = Y A 2T T 4,1 lt V J 2~ V -* 2 -*n l> Vn Vn = i-y.

Of sides (taken as equal to the number of segments of the great circles) and 24 respectively, whilst for general n it is 2n(n- 1). Thus, is 4, 12, 57 2 large the average area is asymptotically equal to 4jm~ , whilst the average number of sides of each quasi-polygonal region will as n becomes be the limit of which is 4. e. it is \nn, so that the l average perimeter of a region is asymptotically equal to ^nn~ and the -1 average length of each side is nn , . 4 tribution of regions in a small circle of radius r on the surface of the sphere.