Abstract: Part I. Integral Geometry in the Plane: 1. Convex sets in the plane 2. Sets of points and Poisson processes in the plane 3. Sets of lines in the plane 4. Pairs of points and pairs of lines 5. Sets of strips in the plane 6. The group of motions in the plane: kinematic density 7. Fundamental formulas of Poincare and Blaschke 8. Lattices of figures Part II. General Integral Geometry: 9. Differential forms and Lie groups 10. Density and measure in homogenous spaces 11. The affine groups 12. The group of motions in En Part III. Integral Geometry in En: 13. Convex sets in En 14. Linear subspaces, convex sets and compact manifolds 15. The kinematic density in En 16. Geometric and statistical applications: stereology Part IV. Integral Geometry in Spaces of Constant Curvature: 17. Noneuclidean integral geometry 18. Crofton's formulas and the kinematic fundamental formula in noneuclidean spaces 19. Integral geometry and foliated spaces: trends in integral geometry.
TL;DR: In this article, the minimum discrimination information problem is viewed as projecting a PD onto a convex set of PD's and useful existence theorems for and characterizations of the minimizing PD are arrived at.
Abstract: Some geometric properties of PD's are established, Kullback's $I$-divergence playing the role of squared Euclidean distance. The minimum discrimination information problem is viewed as that of projecting a PD onto a convex set of PD's and useful existence theorems for and characterizations of the minimizing PD are arrived at. A natural generalization of known iterative algorithms converging to the minimizing PD in special situations is given; even for those special cases, our convergence proof is more generally valid than those previously published. As corollaries of independent interest, generalizations of known results on the existence of PD's or nonnegative matrices of a certain form are obtained. The Lagrange multiplier technique is not used.
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the foundations of Stochastic Geometry, as well as some Geometric Probability Problems, and some of the facts from Convex Geometry.
Abstract: Foundations of Stochastic Geometry.- Prolog.- Random Closed Sets.- Point Processes.- Geometric Models.- Integral Geometry.- Averaging with Invariant Measures.- Extended Concepts of Integral Geometry.- Integral Geometric Transformations.- Selected Topics from Stochastic Geometry.- Some Geometric Probability Problems.- Mean Values for Random Sets.- Random Mosaics.- Non-stationary Models.- Facts from General Topology.- Invariant Measures.- Facts from Convex Geometry.
TL;DR: The concentration of measure phenomenon in product spaces roughly states that, if a set A in a product ΩN of probability spaces has measure at least one half, "most" of the points of Ωn are "close" to A as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The concentration of measure phenomenon in product spaces roughly states that, if a set A in a product ΩN of probability spaces has measure at least one half, “most” of the points of Ωn are “close” to A. We proceed to a systematic exploration of this phenomenon. The meaning of the word “most” is made rigorous by isoperimetrictype inequalities that bound the measure of the exceptional sets. The meaning of the work “close” is defined in three main ways, each of them giving rise to related, but different inequalities. The inequalities are all proved through a common scheme of proof. Remarkably, this simple approach not only yields qualitatively optimal results, but, in many cases, captures near optimal numerical constants. A large number of applications are given, in particular to Percolation, Geometric Probability, Probability in Banach Spaces, to demonstrate in concrete situations the extremely wide range of application of the abstract tools.