The distance problem on measured metric spaces

What distributions arise as the distribution of the distance between two typical points in some measured metric space? This seems to be a surprisingly subtle problem. We conjecture that every distribution with a density function whose support contains <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> </mml:math> does arise in this way, and give some partial results in that direction.

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Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques
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2025-10-31
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https://doi.org/10.5802/afst.1835
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Point processes and geometric inequalities
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The distance problem on measured metric spaces

David Aldous, Nicolas Curien, Guillaume Blanc
Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques
Point processes and geometric inequalities
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The distance problem on measured metric spaces

David Aldous, Nicolas Curien, Guillaume Blanc
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Abstract

What distributions arise as the distribution of the distance between two typical points in some measured metric space? This seems to be a surprisingly subtle problem. We conjecture that every distribution with a density function whose support contains <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> </mml:math> does arise in this way, and give some partial results in that direction.

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse MathématiquesVol. 34(5)
Openalex Percentile: Top 56%
Point processes and geometric inequalities
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