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Why are two "random" vectors in $\mathbb R^n$ approximately orthogonal for large $n$?
I saw that two random independent vectors are approximately orthogonal in high dimensional space.
How can I prove this?
And is there an intuitive explanation?
Thank you.
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Probability that a "closable" self-avoiding random walk forms a polygon
Consider a self-avoiding random walk on an infinite graph (for concreteness, the grid of 2-dimensional lattice points $\mathbb{Z}^2$), in which on each step, the next position is chosen uniformly at ...
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Canonical representation of the a probability distribution for Hammersley Clifford Theorem
I'm reading the following paper
http://www2.stat.duke.edu/~scs/Courses/Stat376/Papers/GibbsFieldEst/BesagJRSSB1974.pdf
On page 7 they give the result that
$$Q(\textbf{x}) = \sum_{1 \leq i \leq n} ...