Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 4 27K c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Here is planar Lebesgue measure. For a Borel set , polar coordinates giveThe pushforward is therefore locally finite and atomless. By the mapping theorem for Poisson point processes, is a homogeneous Poisson process on with constant intensity . This is the two-dimensional radial volume transform of a homogeneous Poisson point process.
Put . The variable is the th arrival time of that rate- Poisson process, hence has the gamma distribution with shape and rate :Since and , the change-of-variables formula for a probability density gives the Kth-nearest-neighbour distance in a homogeneous Poisson point process
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 ii Paper 4 27L b i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25