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Average distance of the mean of $n$ random complex numbers in a unit disc

This does not answer the question, but reformulates it as an integration problem and addresses a question asked in the comments. Conditionally on $|z_1| = a_1$, ..., $|z_n| = a_n$, the probability tha …
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Expected absolute value of the average of two points from the disc

The easiest way seems to be to take the integration variable to be $x= |\frac{z_1+z_2}{2}|$ and then integrate over the position of the point furthest from the origin: This gives $$ \operatorname{exp …
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