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An $\epsilon$-distance-uniform graph is one in which from every vertex, all but an $\epsilon$-fraction of the remaining vertices are at some fixed distance $d$, called the critical distance. We consider the maximum possible value of $d$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-18 Mikhail Lavrov , Po-Shen Loh , Arnau Messegué

A celebrated unit distance conjecture due to Erd\H os says that that the unit distances cannot arise more than $C_{\epsilon}n^{1+\epsilon}$ times (for any $\epsilon>0$) among $n$ points in the Euclidean plane (see e.g. \cite{SST84} and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-14 A. Gafni , A. Iosevich , E. Wyman

In this paper, we study the problem of computing the diameter of a set of $n$ points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space for a fixed dimension $d$, and propose a new $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm with $O(n+ 1/\varepsilon^{d-1})$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Mahdi Imanparast , Seyed Naser Hashemi , Ali Mohades

A subset $X$ in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space is called a $k$-distance set if there are exactly $k$ distances between two distinct points in $X$. Einhorn and Schoenberg conjectured that the vertices of the regular icosahedron is the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Masashi Shinohara

In 1946 Erd\H os asked for the maximum number of unit distances, $u(n)$, among $n$ points in the plane. He showed that $u(n)> n^{1+c/\log\log n}$ and conjectured that this was the true magnitude. The best known upper bound is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Ryan Schwartz , József Solymosi , Frank de Zeeuw

We prove algorithmic and hardness results for the problem of finding the largest set of a fixed diameter in the Euclidean space. In particular, we prove that if $A^*$ is the largest subset of diameter $r$ of $n$ points in the Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-03-15 Peyman Afshani , Hamed Hatami

In this paper, we considier the limiting distribution of the maximum interpoint Euclidean distance $M_n=\max _{1 \leq i<j \leq n}\left\|\boldsymbol{X}_i-\boldsymbol{X}_j\right\|$, where $\boldsymbol{X}_1, \boldsymbol{X}_2, \ldots,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Guowei Yan , Long Feng

Average distance between two points in a unit-volume body $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ tends to infinity as $n \to \infty$. However, for two small subsets of volume $\varepsilon > 0$ the situation is different. For unit-volume cubes and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Abdulamin Ismailov , Alexei Kanel-Belov , Fyodor Ivlev

The set of points in a metric space is called an $s$-distance set if pairwise distances between these points admit only $s$ distinct values. Two-distance spherical sets with the set of scalar products $\{\alpha, -\alpha\}$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Alexey Glazyrin , Wei-Hsuan Yu

Given a set $X\subseteq\mathbb{R}^2$ of $n$ points and a distance $d>0$, the multiplicity of $d$ is the number of times the distance $d$ appears between points in $X$. Let $a_1(X) \geq a_2(X) \geq \cdots \geq a_m(X)$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Felix Christian Clemen , Adrian Dumitrescu , Dingyuan Liu

In this note, we show that in planar pointsets determining many unit distances, these unit distances must span many directions. Specifically, we show that a set of $n$ points can determine only $o(n^{4/3})$ unit distances from a set of at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Gabriel Currier , József Solymosi

Since ancient times mathematicians consider geometrical objects with integral side lengths. We consider plane integral point sets $\mathcal{P}$, which are sets of $n$ points in the plane with pairwise integral distances where not all the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Sascha Kurz , Alfred Wassermann

In 1959, Erd\H{o}s and Moser asked for the maximum number of unit distances that may be formed among the vertices of a convex $n$-gon; until now, the best known upper bound has been $2\pi n \log_2 n + O(n)$, achieved by F\"uredi in 1990. In…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Amol Aggarwal

A finite set of the Euclidean space is called an $s$-distance set provided the number of Euclidean distances in the set is $s$. Determining the largest possible $s$-distance set for the Euclidean space of a given dimension is challenging.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara , Sho Suda

In this paper, we prove a geometrical inequality which states that for any four points on a hemisphere with the unit radius, the largest sum of distances between the points is 4+4*sqrt(2). In our method, we have constructed a rectangular…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zhenbing Zeng , Jian Lu , Yaochen Xu , Yuzheng Wang

We recall the definition of an r-maximal set in a metric space as a maximal subset of diameter r. In the special case when the metric space is Euclidean such a set is exactly a solid of constant diameter r. In the process of reviewing the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-08-17 Ethan Akin

We consider a problem posed by Erd\H{o}s, Herzog and Piranian on the maximum product of distances of a point set of order $n$ with a given diameter. We prove that it is sufficient to consider convex polygons and obtain results on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Stijn Cambie , Arne Decadt , Yanni Dong , Tao Hu , Quanyu Tang

A set of points in d-dimensional Euclidean space is almost equidistant if among any three points of the set, some two are at distance 1. We show that an almost-equidistant set in $\mathbb{R}^d$ has cardinality $O(d^{4/3})$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Andrey Kupavskii , Nabil H. Mustafa , Konrad J. Swanepoel

Euclidean distance geometry is the study of Euclidean geometry based on the concept of distance. This is useful in several applications where the input data consists of an incomplete set of distances, and the output is a set of points in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-05-03 Leo Liberti , Carlile Lavor , Nelson Maculan , Antonio Mucherino

We employ signed measures that are positive definite up to certain degrees to establish Levenshtein-type upper bounds on the cardinality of codes with given minimum and maximum distances, and universal lower bounds on the potential energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Peter Boyvalenkov , Peter Dragnev , Douglas Hardin , Edward Saff , Maya Stoyanova