Intrinsic volumes of ellipsoids

A. Gusakova   ; E. Spodarev   ; D. Zaporozhets

Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Probability and statistics. Part 33, Tome 515 (2022), pp. 121-140

Résumé

We deduce explicit formulae for the intrinsic volumes of an ellipsoid in $\mathbb R^d$, $d\ge 2$, in terms of elliptic integrals. Namely, for an ellipsoid ${\mathcal E}\subset \mathbb R^d$ with semiaxes $a_1,\ldots, a_d$ we show that \begin{align*} V_k({\mathcal E})&=\kappa_k\sum\limits_{i=1}^da_i^2s_{k-1}(a_1^2,\dots,a_{i-1}^2,a_{i+1}^2,\dots,a_d^2) \\&\times\int\limits_0^{\infty}{t^{k-1}\over(a_i^2t^2+1)\prod\limits_{j=1}^d\sqrt{a_j^2t^2+1}} \rm{d}t \end{align*} for all $k=1,\ldots,d$, where $s_{k-1}$ is the $(k-1)$-th elementary symmetric polynomial and $\kappa_k$ is the volume of the $k$-dimensional unit ball. Some examples of the intrinsic volumes $V_k$ with low and high $k$ are given where our formulae look particularly simple. As an application we derive new formulae for the expected $k$-dimensional volume of random $k$-simplex in an ellipsoid and random Gaussian $k$-simplex.

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