Poisson Hyperplane Tessellations

This book is the first comprehensive presentation of a central topic of stochastic geometry: random mosaics that are generated by Poisson processes of hyperplanes. It thus connects a basic notion from probability theory, Poisson processes, with a fundamental object of geometry. The independence properties of Poisson processes and the long-range influence of hyperplanes lead to a wide range of phenomena which are of interest from both a geometric and a probabilistic point of view. A Poisson hyperplane tessellation generates many random polytopes, also a much-studied object of stochastic geometry. The book offers a variety of different perspectives and covers in detail all aspects studied in the original literature. The work will be useful to graduate students (advanced students in a Master program, PhD students), and professional mathematicians. The book can also serve as a reference for researchers in fields of physics, computer science, economics or engineering.

- 1 Notation.- 2 Hyperplane and particle processes.- 3 Distribution-independent density relations.- 4 Poisson hyperplane processes.- 5 Auxiliary functionals and bodies.- 6 Zero cell and typical cell.- 7 Mixing and ergodicity.- 8 Observations inside a window.- 9 Central limit theorems.- 10 Palm distributions and related constructions.- 11 Typical faces and weighted faces.- 12 Large cells and faces.- 13 Cells with a given number of facets.- 14 Small cells.- 15 The K-cell under increasing intensities.- 16 Isotropic zero cells.- 17 Functionals of Poisson processes and applications.- 18 Appendix: Some auxiliary results.

Daniel Hug: Born 1965, Studies of Mathematics and Physics in Freiburg, Diploma 1991, PhD 1994 and Habilitation 2000 in Mathematics (Univ. Freiburg). Assistant Professor at TU Vienna (2000), 2000--2005 Assistant/Associate Professor Univ. Freiburg, 2005--2007 trained and acted as a High School Teacher, 2007 Professor Univ. Duisburg-Essen, 2007--2011 Associate Professor in Karlsruhe, Professor in Karlsruhe (KIT) since 2011.