IMC 2024 · Problem 5

Day 131st IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Let n>dn > d be positive integers. Choose nn independent, uniformly distributed random points x1,,xnx_1, \ldots, x_n in the unit ball BRdB \subset \mathbb{R}^d centered at the origin. For a point pBp \in B denote by f(p)f(p) the probability that the convex hull of x1,,xnx_1, \ldots, x_n contains pp. Prove that if p,qBp, q \in B and the distance of pp from the origin is smaller than the distance of qq from the origin, then f(p)f(q)f(p) \ge f(q).

Official solution

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Proposed by Fedor Petrov, St Petersburg State University.