{"title":"Shooting randomly against a line in Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces","authors":"E. Orsingher, Bruno Toaldo","doi":"10.1080/17442508.2012.749260","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we study a class of distributions related to the r.v. , for different distributions of . The problem is related to the hitting point of a randomly oriented ray and generalizes the Cauchy distribution in different directions. We show that the distribution of solves the Laplace equation of order , possesses even moments of order , and has bimodal structure when is uniform. We study also a number of distributional properties of functionals of , including those related to the arcsine law. Finally we study the same problem in the Poincaré half-plane and this leads to the hyperbolic distribution of which the main properties are explored. In particular we study the distribution of hyperbolic functions of , the law of sums of i.i.d. r.v.'s and the distribution of the area of random hyperbolic right triangles.","PeriodicalId":0,"journal":{"name":"","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442508.2012.749260","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this paper we study a class of distributions related to the r.v. , for different distributions of . The problem is related to the hitting point of a randomly oriented ray and generalizes the Cauchy distribution in different directions. We show that the distribution of solves the Laplace equation of order , possesses even moments of order , and has bimodal structure when is uniform. We study also a number of distributional properties of functionals of , including those related to the arcsine law. Finally we study the same problem in the Poincaré half-plane and this leads to the hyperbolic distribution of which the main properties are explored. In particular we study the distribution of hyperbolic functions of , the law of sums of i.i.d. r.v.'s and the distribution of the area of random hyperbolic right triangles.