Author:
Arias-Castro Ery,Donoho David L.,Huo Xiaoming,Tovey Craig A.
Abstract
Given a class Γ of curves in [0, 1]2, we ask: in a cloud of n uniform random points, how many points can lie on some curve γ ∈ Γ? Classes studied here include curves of length less than or equal to L, Lipschitz graphs, monotone graphs, twice-differentiable curves, and graphs of smooth functions with m-bounded derivatives. We find, for example, that there are twice-differentiable curves containing as many as OP(n1/3) uniform random points, but not essentially more than this. More generally, we consider point clouds in higher-dimensional cubes [0, 1]d and regular hypersurfaces of specified codimension, finding, for example, that twice-differentiable k-dimensional hypersurfaces in Rd may contain as many as OP(nk/(2d-k)) uniform random points. We also consider other notions of ‘incidence’, such as curves passing through given location/direction pairs, and find, for example, that twice-differentiable curves in R2 may pass through at most OP(n1/4) uniform random location/direction pairs. Idealized applications in image processing and perceptual psychophysics are described and several open mathematical questions are identified for the attention of the probability community.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Statistics and Probability
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