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Let $d_1\leq d_2\leq\ldots\leq d_{n\choose 2}$ denote the distances determined by $n$ points in the plane. It is shown that $\min\sum_i (d_{i+1}-d_i)^2=O(n^{-6/7})$, where the minimum is taken over all point sets with minimal distance $d_1…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-03 János Pach , Joel Spencer

For every fixed dimension $d$ and sufficiently large $n$, we determine the maximum possible diameter of a strongly connected $d$-dimensional simplicial complex on $n$ vertices. This improves on a sequence of previous results and settles a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Stefan Glock , Olaf Parczyk , Silas Rathke , Tibor Szabó

We show that the maximum number of convex polygons in a triangulation of $n$ points in the plane is $O(1.5029^n)$. This improves an earlier bound of $O(1.6181^n)$ established by van Kreveld, L\"offler, and Pach (2012) and almost matches the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Adrian Dumitrescu , Csaba D. Tóth

In this paper the problem of maximizing the distance to a given fixed point over an intersection of balls is considered. It is known that this problem is NP complete in the general case, since any subset sum problem can be solved upon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Marius Costandin

For the given regular plane polygon and an arbitrary point in the plane of the polygon, the distances from the point to the vertices of the polygon are defined. We proved that there is one more non-congruent regular polygon having the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Mamuka Meskhishvili

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

A small polygon is a polygon of unit diameter. The maximal width of an equilateral small polygon with $n=2^s$ vertices is not known when $s \ge 3$. This paper solves the first open case and finds the optimal equilateral small octagon. Its…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Christian Bingane , Charles Audet

We introduce and study arithmetic polygons. We show that these arithmetic polygons are connected to triples of square pyramidal numbers. For every odd $N\geq3$, we prove that there is at least one arithmetic polygon with $N$ sides. We also…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Jack Anderson , Amy Woodall , Alexandru Zaharescu

A ball polyhedron is the intersection of a finite number of closed balls in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with the same radius. In this note, we study ball polyhedra in which the set of centers defining the balls have the maximum possible number of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Ryan Hynd

T. Keleti asked, whether the ratio of the perimeter and the area of a finite union of unit squares is always at most 4. In this paper we present an example where the ratio is greater than 4. We also answer the analogous question for regular…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Viktor Kiss , Zoltán Vidnyánszky

This letter casts the problem of optimum discrete beamforming as the computation of the Minkowski sum of convex polygons, which is itself a convex polygon. The number of vertices of the latter is at most the sum of the number of vertices of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Heedong Do , Angel Lozano

The discrete isoperimetric inequality states that among all n -gons with a fixed area, the regular n -gon has the least perimeter. We prove analogues of the discrete isoperimetric inequality (involving circumradius or inradius) for cyclic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Subash Chandra Behera , Shiv Parsad

We consider the following geometric optimization problem: find a convex polygon of maximum area contained in a given simple polygon $P$ with $n$ vertices. We give a randomized near-linear-time $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Sergio Cabello , Josef Cibulka , Jan Kynčl , Maria Saumell , Pavel Valtr

The Fr\'{e}chet distance is a well studied and commonly used measure to capture the similarity of polygonal curves. Unfortunately, it exhibits a high sensitivity to the presence of outliers. Since the presence of outliers is a frequently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Jean-Lou De Carufel , Amin Gheibi , Anil Maheshwari , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack , Christian Scheffer

The paper is devoted to some extremal problems, related to convex polygons in the Euclidean plane and their perimeters. We present a number of results that have simple formulations, but rather intricate proofs. Related and still unsolved…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Yu. G. Nikonorov , O. Yu. Nikonorova

Let $A(s) = \sum_n a_n n^{-s}$ be a Dirichlet series with meromorphic continuation. Say we are given information on the poles of $A(s)$ with $|\Im s| \leq T$ for some large constant $T$. What is the best way to use such finite spectral data…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Andrés Chirre , Harald Andrés Helfgott

We study a problem of Santos about the largest possible diameter of a $d$-dimensional (abstract) simplicial complex on $n$ vertices. For dimension 2, we determine the exact value of the maximum for every $n$ using an explicit construction.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Olaf Parczyk , Silas Rathke , Tibor Szabó

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular similarity measure that is well-understood for polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$: near-quadratic time algorithms exist, and conditional lower bounds suggest that these results cannot be improved…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

Let $S = \{ {A_1},{A_2}, \cdots ,{A_n}\} $ be a finite point set in m-dimensional Euclidean space ${E^m}$, and$\left\| {{A_i}{A_j}} \right\|$ be the distance between $A_i$ and $A_j$. Define $\sigma (S) = \sum\limits_{1 \le i < j \le n}…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Yuyang Zhu

A \textit{Reinhardt polygon} is a convex $n$-gon that, for $n$ not a power of $2$, is optimal in three different geometric optimization problems, for example, it has maximal perimeter relative to its diameter. Some such polygons exhibit a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Kevin G. Hare , Michael J. Mossinghoff