Asphericity

Asphericity is defined as (Eq.5):

$\langle A\rangle ={\frac {\langle \mathrm {Tr} ^{2}-3M\rangle }{\langle \mathrm {Tr} ^{2}\rangle }}$

where $\mathrm {Tr}$ is the trace of the moment of inertia tensor, given by (Eq. 3)

$\mathrm {Tr} =R_{1}^{2}+R_{2}^{2}+R_{3}^{2}$

and $M$ is the sum of the three minors, given by

$M=R_{1}^{2}R_{2}^{2}+R_{1}^{2}R_{3}^{2}+R_{2}^{2}R_{3}^{2}$

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See also

• Radius of gyration
• Random walk