Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-02-13
J. Stat. Phys.132 (2008) 627-647
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
26 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1007/s10955-008-9577-0
We consider a family of random line tessellations of the Euclidean plane introduced in a much more formal context by Hug and Schneider [Geom. Funct. Anal. 17, 156 (2007)] and described by a parameter \alpha\geq 1. For \alpha=1 the zero-cell (that is, the cell containing the origin) coincides with the Crofton cell of a Poisson line tessellation, and for \alpha=2 it coincides with the typical Poisson-Voronoi cell. Let p_n(\alpha) be the probability for the zero-cell to have n sides. By the methods of statistical mechanics we construct the asymptotic expansion of \log p_n(\alpha) up to terms that vanish as n\to\infty. In the large-n limit the cell is shown to become circular. The circle is centered at the origin when \alpha>1, but gets delocalized for the Crofton cell, \alpha=1, which is a singular point of the parameter range. The large-n expansion of \log p_n(1) is therefore different from that of the general case and we show how to carry it out. As a corollary we obtain the analogous expansion for the {\it typical} n-sided cell of a Poisson line tessellation.
Calka Pierre
Hilhorst Hendrik-Jan
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