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In this paper some isoperimetric inequalities for stationary random tessellations are discussed. At first, classical results on deterministic tessellations in the Euclidean plane are extended to the case of random tessellations. An isoperimetric inequality for the random Poisson polygon is derived as a consequence of a theorem of Davidson concerning an extremal property of tessellations generated by random lines inR 2. We mention extremal properties of stationary hyperplane tessellations inR d related to Davidson's result in cased=2. Finally, similar problems for random arrangements ofr-flats inR d are considered (r<d−1).
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This work was done while the author was visiting the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
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Mecke, J. Extremal properties of some geometric processes. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 9, 61–69 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00580821
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