Title: Absorption probabilities for Gaussian polytopes, and regular spherical simplices,
Abstract: The Gaussian polytope $\mathcal P_{n,d}$ is the convex hull of $n$
independent standard normally distributed points in $\mathbb R^d$. We derive
explicit expressions for the probability that $\mathcal P_{n,d}$ contains a
fixed point $x\in\mathbb R^d$ as a function of the Euclidean norm of $x$, and
the probability that $\mathcal P_{n,d}$ contains the point $\sigma X$, where
$\sigma\geq 0$ is constant and $X$ is a standard normal vector independent of
$\mathcal P_{n,d}$. As a by-product, we also compute the expected number of
$k$-faces and the expected volume of $\mathcal P_{n,d}$, thus recovering the
results of Affentranger and Schneider [Discr. and Comput. Geometry, 1992] and
Efron [Biometrika, 1965], respectively. All formulas are in terms of the
volumes of regular spherical simplices, which, in turn, can be expressed
through the standard normal distribution function $\Phi(z)$ and its complex
version $\Phi(iz)$. The main tool used in the proofs is the conic version of
the Crofton formula.