On the Isotropic Constant of Random Polytopes with Vertices on an $$\ell _p$$-Sphere

The symmetric convex hull of random points that are independent and distributed according to the cone probability measure on the \(\ell _p\)-unit sphere of \({{\mathbb {R}}}^n\) for some \(1\le p < \infty \) is considered. We prove that these random polytopes have uniformly absolutely bounded isotropic constants with overwhelming probability. This generalizes the result for the Euclidean sphere \((p=2)\) obtained by Alonso-Gutiérrez. The proof requires several different tools including a probabilistic representation of the cone measure due to Schechtman and Zinn and moment estimates for sums of independent random variables with log-concave tails originating in a paper of Gluskin and Kwapień.