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A spherical two-distance set is a finite collection of unit vectors in $\reals^n$ such that the set of distances between any two distinct vectors has cardinality two. We use the semidefinite programming method to compute improved estimates…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-24 Alexander Barg , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We establish upper bounds for the size of two-distance sets in Euclidean space and spherical two-distance sets. The main recipe for obtaining upper bounds is the spectral method. We construct Seidel matrices to encode the distance relations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Wei-Chun Chen , Wei-Hsuan Yu

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

A set of points $S$ in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ is called a 2-distance set if the set of pairwise distances between the points has cardinality two. The 2-distance set is called spherical if its points lie on the unit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Iliyas Noman , Yuan Yao

A set of unit vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a called a spherical two-distance set if the inner products of distinct vectors only take two values. In this paper, we give explicit correspondence between spherical two-distance sets and graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Jiang Zhou

A finite set X in a metric space M is called an s-distance set if the set of distances between any two distinct points of X has size s. The main problem for s-distance sets is to determine the maximum cardinality of s-distance sets for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-24 Oleg R. Musin , Hiroshi Nozaki

We Use the method of linearly independent polynomials to derive an upper bound for the cardinality of a spherical s-distance set F where the sum of distinct inner products of any two elements from F is zero. Our result generalizes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Mrinmoy Datta , Subrata Manna

A finite set X in the d-dimensional Euclidean space is called an s-distance set if the set of Euclidean distances between any two distinct points of X has size s. Larman--Rogers--Seidel proved that if the cardinality of a two-distance set…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Hiroshi Nozaki

A finite set $X$ in the Euclidean unit sphere is called an $s$-distance set if the set of distances between any distinct two elements of $X$ has size $s$. We say that $t$ is the strength of $X$ if $X$ is a spherical $t$-design but not a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-17 Hiroshi Nozaki , Sho Suda

We study the problem of determining the maximum size of a spherical two-distance set with two fixed angles (one acute and one obtuse) in high dimensions. Let $N_{\alpha,\beta}(d)$ denote the maximum number of unit vectors in $\mathbb R^d$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Zilin Jiang , Jonathan Tidor , Yuan Yao , Shengtong Zhang , Yufei Zhao

A finite set of distinct vectors $\mathcal{X}$ in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ is called an $s$-distance set if the set of mutual distances between distinct elements of $\mathcal{X}$ has cardinality $s$. In this paper…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Ferenc Szöllősi , Patric R. J. Östergård

A set of lines in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is called equiangular if the angle between each pair of lines is the same. We derive new upper bounds on the cardinality of equiangular lines. Let us denote the maximum cardinality of equiangular lines in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Wei-Hsuan Yu

A finite set of distinct vectors $\mathcal{X}$ in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ is called a $2$-distance set, if the set of mutual distances between distinct elements of $\mathcal{X}$ has cardinality exactly $2$. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Ferenc Szöllősi

A finite collection of unit vectors $S \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is called a spherical two-distance set if there are two numbers $a$ and $b$ such that the inner products of distinct vectors from $S$ are either $a$ or $b$. We prove that if $a\ne…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Alexander Barg , Alexei Glazyrin , Kasso Okoudjou , Wei-Hsuan Yu

A finite set X in the Euclidean space is called an s-inner product set if the set of the usual inner products of any two distinct points in X has size s. First, we give a special upper bound for the cardinality of an s-inner product set on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Hiroshi Nozaki

A spherical three-distance set is a finite collection $X$ of unit vectors in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ such that for each pair of distinct vectors has three inner product values. We use the semidefinite programming method to improve the upper bounds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Feng-Yuan Liu , Wei-Hsuan Yu

A finite subset $X$ of the Euclidean space is called an $m$-distance set if the number of distances between two distinct points in $X$ is equal to $m$. An $m$-distance set $X$ is said to be maximal if any vector cannot be added to $X$ while…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara

A finite subset of a Euclidean space is called an $s$-distance set if there exist exactly $s$ values of the Euclidean distances between two distinct points in the set. In this paper, we prove that the maximum cardinality among all…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara

A subset $X$ in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space is called a $k$-distance set if there are exactly $k$ distinct distances between two distinct points in $X$ and a subset $X$ is called a locally $k$-distance set if for any point $x$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-10 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara

An $L$-spherical code is a set of Euclidean unit vectors whose pairwise inner products belong to the set $L$. We show, for a fixed $\alpha,\beta>0$, that the size of any $[-1,-\beta]\cup\{\alpha\}$-spherical code is at most linear in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Boris Bukh
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