Central angle between independent uniform sphere points

ID: central-angle-between-independent-uniform-sphere-points

For two independent uniform points on the surface of a sphere, rotational invariance permits fixing the first at the north pole. The surface area of a latitude band of angular width is , yielding the displayed density for their central angle. Equivalently their unit position vectors have a dot product uniformly distributed on . The law is independent of sphere radius.

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