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Does there exist a scale invariant random packing of circles in the plane?

I want to construct a scale invariant random packing of the plane with circles. Here is a way to construct a rotationally invariant, but not scale invariant random packing of the plane with circles: ...
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On bounding a certain discrepancy between probability distributions on the symmetric group

Disclaimer. This is a follow up to a question I asked and answered on SE https://math.stackexchange.com/q/3579311/168758. The question was about upper-bounds. Here I'm interested in lower bounds, and ...
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On 4 random points in a rectangle [closed]

Given a bounded rectangular area, I generate 4 random points. What is the probability that the fourth point lie within a triangle formed the first 3? How would I attack this problem? The goal is to ...
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The expectation of two sides of rectangle is equal. Can we deduce that in the expectation the rectangle is not very far from being a square?

Let $T$ be a set of $n\ge 3$ points in the plane such that not all of them lie in a common line. Pick two distinct points $\{a=\left( \begin{array}{c} a_{1} \\a_{2} \end{array} \right) ,b=\left( \...
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Probability of random geodesics on the half-sphere intersecting

4 end points (a,b,c,d say) are chosen uniformly randomly and connected a to b and c to d by two geodesics on the 2-dim half-sphere. Here, uniform means that, probability that a point lies on a surface ...