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Measures and geometric probabilities for ellipses intersecting circles

Uwe Bäsel
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Santaló calculated the measures for all positions of a moving line segment in which it lies inside a fixed circle and intersects this circle in one or two points. From these measures he concluded hitting probabilities for a line segment thrown randomly onto an unbounded lattice of circles. In the present paper these results are generalized to ellipses instead of line segments. The respective measures for all positions of a moving ellipse in which it lies completely inside a fixed circle, encloses it, and intersects it in two or four points are derived. Then the hitting probabilities for lattices of circles are deduced. It is shown that the results for a line segment follow as special cases from those of the ellipse.

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Uwe Bäsel. 2016-12-06. Measures and geometric probabilities for ellipses intersecting circles. https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01819

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