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Maximal $2$-distance sets containing the regular simplex

Combinatorics 2020-07-28 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A finite subset XX of the Euclidean space is called an mm-distance set if the number of distances between two distinct points in XX is equal to mm. An mm-distance set XX is said to be maximal if any vector cannot be added to XX while maintaining the mm-distance condition. We investigate a necessary and sufficient condition for vectors to be added to a regular simplex such that the set has only 22 distances. We construct several dd-dimensional maximal 22-distance sets that contain a dd-dimensional regular simplex. In particular, there exist infinitely many maximal non-spherical 22-distance sets that contain both the regular simplex and the representation of a strongly resolvable design. The maximal 22-distance set has size 2s2(s+1)2s^2(s+1), and the dimension is d=(s1)(s+1)21d=(s-1)(s+1)^2-1, where ss is a prime power.

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@article{arxiv.1904.11351,
  title  = {Maximal $2$-distance sets containing the regular simplex},
  author = {Hiroshi Nozaki and Masashi Shinohara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11351},
  year   = {2020}
}

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15 pages, no figure

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