English

General penny graphs are at most 43/18-dense

Combinatorics 2025-05-27 v2 Computational Geometry Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that among nn points in the plane in general position, the shortest distance occurs at most 43n/1843n/18 times, improving upon the upper bound of 17n/717n/7 obtained by T\'oth in 1997.

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@article{arxiv.2402.09131,
  title  = {General penny graphs are at most 43/18-dense},
  author = {Arsenii Sagdeev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09131},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

13 pages, 21 figures; a few modifications based on the reviews

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