Asymptotic shape of the convex hull of isotropic log-concave random vectors

Let $x_1,ldots ,x_N$ be independent random points distributed according to an isotropic log-concave measure $mu $ on ${mathbb R}^n$, and consider the random polytope $$K_N:={rm conv}{ pm x_1,ldots ,pm x_N}.$$ We provide sharp estimates for the quermass{}integrals and other geometric parameters of $K_N$ in the range $cnls Nlsexp (n)$; these complement previous results from cite{DGT1} and cite{DGT} that were given for the range $cnls Nlsexp (sqrt{n})$. One of the basic new ingredients in our work is a recent result of E.~Milman that determines the mean width of the centroid body $Z_q(mu )$ of $mu $ for all $1ls qls n$.