In Random Points on a Sphere (Part 1), we learned an interesting fact. You can take the unit sphere in
, randomly choose two points on it, and compute their distance. This gives a random variable, whose moments you can calculate.
And now the interesting part: when n = 1, 2 or 4, and seemingly in no other cases, all the even moments are integers.
These are the dimensions in which the spheres are groups. We can prove that the even moments are integers because they are differences of dimensions...
Published on July 13, 2018 12:43