Umbrellas and polytopal approximation of the euclidean ball

Abstract

There are two positive, absolute constants $c_{1}$ and $c_{2}$ so that the volume of the difference set of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean ball and an inscribed polytope with n vertices is larger than $$ c_{2}\ d\ {n}^{-\frac{2}{d-1}}vol_d(B^d_2) $$ for $n \geq (c_{1}\ d)^{\frac{d-1}{2}}$.