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No new lower bound for the density of planar Sets avoiding Unit Distances

Metric Geometry 2025-06-19 v4 Numerical Analysis Combinatorics Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In a recently published article by G. Ambrus et al. a new \emph{upper bound} for the density of an unit avoiding, periodic set is given as 0.24700.2470, the first upper bound <1/4< 1/4. A construction of Croft 1967 gave a \emph{lower bound} δC=0.22936\delta_C = 0.22936 for the density. To this date, no better construction with a higher bound has been given. In the \emph{first versions} of this article I gave a construction of planar sets with a "higher" density than Croft's tortoises. No explicit value for this density was given, it was just shown that Croft's density is a local minima in the density of the constructed 1-parameter family of planar sets. But now I found a servere error. After the correction in this article none of the investigated sets of constant diameter resulted in a new lower bound. I did not withdraw the article, maybe something could be useful for somebody.

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@article{arxiv.2408.10076,
  title  = {No new lower bound for the density of planar Sets avoiding Unit Distances},
  author = {Helmut Ruhland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10076},
  year   = {2025}
}

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