Counting the faces of randomly-projected hypercubes and orthants, with applications

Discrete and Computational Geometry

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 522-541

  Donoho, David L ^a   Tanner, Jared ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrangements of hyperplanes; Compressed sensing; Random cones; Random matrices; Random polytopes; Threshold phenomena; Unique solution of underdetermined systems of linear equations; Wendel's theorem; Winder Cover theorem; Zonotope

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950517814     PISSN: 01795376     EISSN: 14320444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00454-009-9221-z     Document Type: Article

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