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We introduce the $k$-stellated spheres and compare and contrast them with $k$-stacked spheres. It is shown that for $d \geq 2k$, any $k$-stellated sphere of dimension $d$ bounds a unique and canonically defined $k$-stacked ball. In…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Bhaskar Bagchi , Basudeb Datta

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

Eggleston (1957) proved that in the Euclidean plane the best approximating convex $n$-gon to a convex disc $K$ is always inscribed in $K$ if we measure the distance by perimeter deviation. We prove that the analogue of Eggleston's statement…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Ferenc Fodor

The Euclidean $k$-center problem is a classical problem that has been extensively studied in computer science. Given a set $\mathcal{G}$ of $n$ points in Euclidean space, the problem is to determine a set $\mathcal{C}$ of $k$ centers (not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Kevin Buchin , Anne Driemel , Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , Irina Kostitsyna , Maarten Löffler , Martijn Struijs

Let $X$ be a finite set in a complex sphere of $d$ dimension. Let $D(X)$ be the set of usual inner products of two distinct vectors in $X$. A set $X$ is called a complex spherical $s$-code if the cardinality of $D(X)$ is $s$ and $D(X)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Hiroshi Nozaki , Sho Suda

We establish an adelic version of Dirichlet's approximation theorem on spheres. Let $K$ be a number field, $E$ be a rigid adelic space over $K$ and $q\colon E\to K$ be a quadratic form. Let $v$ be a place of $K$ and $\alpha\in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Éric Gaudron

An equidistant set in the Euclidean space consists of points having equal distances to both members of a given pair of sets, called focal sets. Having no effective formulas to compute the distance of a point and a set, it is hard to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ábris Nagy , Márk Oláh , Myroslav Stoika , Csaba Vincze

We address an analog of a problem introduced by Erd\H{o}s and Fishburn, itself an inverse formulation of the famous Erd\H{o}s distance problem, in which the usual Euclidean distance is replaced with the metric induced by the $\ell^1$-norm,…

R. B. Kusner [R. Guy, Amer. Math. Monthly 90 (1983), 196--199] asked whether a set of vectors in a d-dimensional real vector space such that the l-p distance between any pair is 1, has cardinality at most d+1. We show that this is true for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Konrad J. Swanepoel

We develop a new approach to address some classical questions concerning the size and structure of integer distance sets. Our main result is that any integer distance set in the Euclidean plane is either very sparse or has all but an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Rachel Greenfeld , Marina Iliopoulou , Sarah Peluse

The following generalisation of the Erd\H{o}s unit distance problem was recently suggested by Palsson, Senger and Sheffer. Given $k$ positive real numbers $\delta_1,\dots,\delta_k$, a $(k+1)$-tuple $(p_1,\dots,p_{k+1})$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-19 Nora Frankl , Andrey Kupavskii

In the (continuous) Euclidean $k$-center problem, given $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and an integer $k$, the goal is to find $k$ center points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimize the maximum Euclidean distance from any input point to its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Lotte Blank , Karl Bringmann , Parinya Chalermsook , Karthik C. S. , Benedikt Kolbe , Hung Le , Geert van Wordragen

We derive general linear programming bounds for spherical $(k,k)$-designs. This includes lower bounds for the minimum cardinality and lower and upper bounds for minimum and maximum energy, respectively. As applications we obtain a universal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Peter Boyvalenkov

A set of vertices of a graph is said to be in general position if no three vertices from the set lie on a common geodesic. Recently Klav\v{z}ar, Rall and Yero generalized this notion by defining a set of vertices to be in general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Brent Cody , Garrett Moore

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

Given a set $X$ and a collection ${\mathcal H}$ of functions from $X$ to $\{0,1\}$, the VC-dimension measures the complexity of the hypothesis class $\mathcal{H}$ in the context of PAC learning. In recent years, this has been connected to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Alex Iosevich , Akos Magyar , Alex McDonald , Brian McDonald

The main goal of this paper is to develop a concept of approximate differentiability of higher order for subsets of the Euclidean space that allows to characterize higher order rectifiable sets, extending somehow well known facts for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Mario Santilli

Metric spaces $(X, d)$ are ubiquitous objects in mathematics and computer science that allow for capturing (pairwise) distance relationships $d(x, y)$ between points $x, y \in X$. Because of this, it is natural to ask what useful…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Willow Barkan-Vered , Huck Bennett , Amir Nayyeri

A Delone set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is a set such that (a) the distance between any two of its points is uniformly bounded below by a strictly positive constant and such that (b) the distance from any point to the remaining points in the set is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Faustin Adiceam , Ioannis Tsokanos

Let $F \subset \R^n$ be a closed set and $n=2$ or $n=3$. S. Ferry (1975) proved that then, for almost all $r>0$, the level set (distance sphere, $r$-boundary) $S_r(F):= \{x \in \R^n: \dist(x,F) = r\}$ is a topological $(n-1)$-dimensional…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Jan Rataj , Ludek Zajicek