The conjecture on convergence of the closure-map pushforward measure

Let Arm(n,d,w)\operatorname{Arm}(n,d,w) be the space of open nn-edge arms in Rd\mathbb{R}^d with fixed edgelength ww, and let Pol(n,d,w)\operatorname{Pol}(n,d,w) be the corresponding space of closed polygons. The closure map sends the natural probability measure on Arm(n,d,w)\operatorname{Arm}(n,d,w) to a probability measure on Pol(n,d,w)\operatorname{Pol}(n,d,w). Closure-map convergence conjecture. As nn\to\infty, the pushforward measure from Arm(n,d,w)\operatorname{Arm}(n,d,w) to Pol(n,d,w)\operatorname{Pol}(n,d,w) converges to the standard measure. If true, then for large nn random polygons would resemble geometric median closures of random arms, so local phenomena should occur at essentially the same rates in the two spaces.

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Jason Cantarella, Kyle Chapman, Philipp Reiter and Clayton Shonkwiler, “Open and closed random walks with fixed edgelengths in R^d”, arXiv:1806.00079 (2018).

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