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The application of the Hankel transformation to spherically symmetric coverage problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Gerhard Schroeter*
Affiliation:
Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
*
Postal address: Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, Einsteinstrasse 20, 8012 Ottobrunn, W. Germany.

Abstract

We derive an integral expression for the expected coverage of an n-dimensional target when the value density function of the target, the damage function, and the distribution of the damage function center around the target center are spherically symmetric. This integral expression is transformed by means of Parseval's theorem for Hankel transforms to an integral of the product of the Hankel transforms of order ½n − 1 of all underlying functions.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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