Threshold phenomena for high-dimensional random polytopes

Let [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] be independent random points in [Formula: see text], distributed according to the so-called beta or beta-prime distribution, respectively. We establish threshold phenomena for the volume, intrinsic volumes, or more general measures of the convex hulls of these random point sets, as the space dimension [Formula: see text] tends to infinity. The dual setting of polytopes generated by random halfspaces is also investigated.