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We show that the maximum cardinality of an equiangular line system in 14 and 16 dimensions is 28 and 40, respectively, thereby solving a longstanding open problem. We also improve the upper bounds on the cardinality of equiangular line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Gary R. W. Greaves , Jeven Syatriadi , Pavlo Yatsyna

We show that every finite-dimensional Euclidean space contains compact universal differentiability sets of upper Minkowski dimension one. In other words, there are compact sets $S$ of upper Minkowski dimension one such that every Lipschitz…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Michael Dymond , Olga Maleva

We study the asymptotic behavior of the diameter or maximum interpoint distance of a cloud of i.i.d. $d$-dimensional random vectors when the number of points in the cloud tends to infinity. This is a non standard extreme value problem since…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Yann Demichel , Ana Karina Fermin , Philippe Soulier

The largest possible average diameter of a bounded cell of a simple hyperplane arrangement is conjectured to be not greater than the dimension. We prove that this conjecture holds in dimension 2, and is asymptotically tight in fixed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-02 Antoine Deza , Feng Xie

We study different ways of determining the mean distance $ < r_n >$ between a reference point and its $n$-th neighbour among random points distributed with uniform density in a $D$-dimensional Euclidean space. First we present a heuristic…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pratip Bhattacharyya , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

The famous Erd\H{o}s distinct distances problem asks the following: how many distinct distances must exist between a set of $n$ points in the plane? There are many generalisations of this question that ask one to consider different spaces…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Sean Dewar , Nora Frankl , Samuel Mansfield , Anthony Nixon , Jonathan Passant , Audie Warren

Huemer et al. (Discrete Mathematics, 2019) proved that for any two point sets $R$ and $B$ with $|R|=|B|$, the perfect matching that matches points of $R$ with points of $B$, and maximizes the total \emph{squared} Euclidean distance of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Sergey Bereg , Oscar Chacón-Rivera , David Flores-Peñaloza , Clemens Huemer , Pablo Pérez-Lantero , Carlos Seara

We prove that the number of unit distances among $n$ planar points is at most $1.94\cdot n^{4/3}$, improving on the previous best bound of $8n^{4/3}$. We also give better upper and lower bounds for several small values of $n$. We also prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Péter Ágoston , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

We prove that there exists a norm in the plane under which no n-point set determines more than O(n log n log log n) unit distances. Actually, most norms have this property, in the sense that their complement is a meager set in the metric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-08 Jiří Matoušek

We show that for $m$ points and $n$ lines in the real plane, the number of distinct distances between the points and the lines is $\Omega(m^{1/5}n^{3/5})$, as long as $m^{1/2}\le n\le m^2$. We also prove that for any $m$ points in the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Micha Sharir , Shakhar Smorodinsky , Claudiu Valculescu , Frank de Zeeuw

We present new bounds on the existence of general quantum maximum distance separable codes (QMDS): the length $n$ of all QMDS codes with local dimension $D$ and distance $d \geq 3$ is bounded by $n \leq D^2 + d - 2$. We obtain their weight…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Felix Huber , Markus Grassl

Let $F_n$ be a free group of rank $n$, with free generating set $X$. A subset $D$ of $F_n$ is a \emph{Distinct Difference Configuration} if the differences $g^{-1}h$ are distinct, where $g$ and $h$ range over all (ordered) pairs of distinct…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Simon R. Blackburn , Emma Smith , Luke Stewart

For $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}$, positive integer $n$, and $d > 0$, let $G(S^n, d)$ be the graph whose vertex set is $S^n$ where any two vertices are adjacent if and only if they are Euclidean distance $d$ apart. The primary question we will…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Matt Noble

We consider point sets in the $m$-dimensional affine space $\mathbb{F}_q^m$ where each squared Euclidean distance of two points is a square in $\mathbb{F}_q$. It turns out that the situation in $\mathbb{F}_q^m$ is rather similar to the one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Sascha Kurz , Harald Meyer

We say that a set of points $S\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ is an $\varepsilon$-nearly $k$-distance set if there exist $1\le t_1\le \ldots\le t_k,$ such that the distance between any two distinct points in $S$ falls into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Nóra Frankl , Andrey Kupavskii

We consider the problem of finding $A_2(n,\{d_1,d_2\})$ defined as the maximal size of a binary (non-linear) code of length $n$ with two distances $d_1$ and $d_2$. Binary codes with distances $d$ and $d+2$ of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Ivan Landjev , Konstantin Vorob'ev

We study the extreme $L_p$ discrepancy of infinite sequences in the $d$-dimensional unit cube, which uses arbitrary sub-intervals of the unit cube as test sets. This is in contrast to the classical star $L_p$ discrepancy, which uses…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Ralph Kritzinger , Friedrich Pillichshammer

An exact upper bound on the sum of squared nearest-neighbor distances between points in a rectangle is given.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Iosif Pinelis

This paper addresses the problem of determining the maximum number of edges in a unit distance graph (UDG) of $n$ vertices using computer search. An unsolved problem of Paul Erd\H{o}s asks the maximum number of edges $u(n)$ a UDG of $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Peter Engel , Owen Hammond-Lee , Yiheng Su , Dániel Varga , Pál Zsámboki

We prove that the highest density of non-overlapping translates of a given centrally symmetric convex domain relative to its outer parallel domain of given outer radius is attained by a lattice packing in the Euclidean plane. This…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Károly Bezdek , Zsolt Lángi