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n-dimensional spheres and ellipsoids – IV – numerical check of Rivin’s formula for the surface areas of ellipsoids in 3 dimensions and the perimeters of ellipses

In the third post of this series we have discussed an idea of I. Rivin (see [1], [2]). Rivin has shown that the surface area of a general (n-1)-dimensional ellipsoid in a n-dimensional Euclidean space can be expressed in terms of an expectation value of a specific function weighted by a multivariate Gaussian probability density [pdf]. In contrast to (n-1)-spheres… Read More »n-dimensional spheres and ellipsoids – IV – numerical check of Rivin’s formula for the surface areas of ellipsoids in 3 dimensions and the perimeters of ellipses

n-dimensional spheres and ellipsoids – III – Surface area of n-dimensional ellipsoid and its relation to MVN-statistics

In the 2nd post of this series we have derived an explicit formula for the volume of a n-dimensional ellipsoid (in an Euclidean space). One reason for the relatively simple derivation was that the determinant of the generating linear transformation could be taken in front of the volume integral. Unfortunately, an analogue sequence of steps is not possible for an… Read More »n-dimensional spheres and ellipsoids – III – Surface area of n-dimensional ellipsoid and its relation to MVN-statistics