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Given a set $P$ of points and a set $U$ of axis-parallel unit squares in the Euclidean plane, a minimum ply cover of $P$ with $U$ is a subset of $U$ that covers $P$ and minimizes the number of squares that share a common intersection,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Stephane Durocher , J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal

We show that there are sets of $n$ points in the plane with $n$ arbitrarily large that contain more than $n^{1.014}$ pairs of points separated by a distance exactly $1$. This improves on very recent work of a team at OpenAI, who proved the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Will Sawin

We study the problem of how well a tree metric is able to preserve the sum of pairwise distances of an arbitrary metric. This problem is closely related to low-stretch metric embeddings and is interesting by its own flavor from the line of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-16 Mong-Jen Kao , Der-Tsai Lee , Dorothea Wagner

We study the problem of partitioning a polygon into the minimum number of subpolygons using cuts in predetermined directions such that each resulting subpolygon satisfies a given width constraint. A polygon satisfies the unit-width…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jaehoon Chung , Kazuo Iwama , Chung-Shou Liao , Hee-Kap Ahn

Let $a_1, \dots, a_n \in \mathbb{R}$ satisfy $\sum_i a_i^2 = 1$, and let $\varepsilon_1, \ldots, \varepsilon_n$ be uniformly random $\pm 1$ signs and $X = \sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i \varepsilon_i$. It is conjectured that $X = \sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Vojtěch Dvořák , Ohad Klein

We give two new upper bounds on the covering minima of convex bodies, depending on covering minima of certain projections and intersections with linear subspaces. We show one bound to be sharp for direct sums of two convex bodies,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Katarina Krivokuća

The paper is devoted to some extremal problems for convex curves and polygons in the Euclidean plane referring to the relative Chebyshev radius. In particular, we determine the relative Chebyshev radius for an arbitrary triangle. Moreover,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Yurii Nikonorov , Yulia Nikonorova

Suppose $\left\{x_1, \dots, x_n\right\} \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ is a set of $n$ points in the plane with diameter $\leq 1$, meaning $|x_i - x_j| \leq 1$ for all $1 \leq i,j \leq n$. We show that the ratio of the number of ``neighbors''…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Samuel Korsky

We improve the best known upper bound on the number of edges in a unit-distance graph on $n$ vertices for each $n\in\{16,\ldots,30\}$. When $n\leq 21$, our bounds match the best known lower bounds, and we fully enumerate the densest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Boris Alexeev , Dustin G. Mixon , Hans Parshall

Consider the regular $n$-simplex $\Delta_n$ - it is formed by the convex-hull of $n+1$ points in Euclidean space, with each pair of points being in distance exactly one from each other. We prove an exact bound on the width of $\Delta_n$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Sariel Har-Peled , Eliot W. Robson

We prove upper bounds on the graph diameters of polytopes in two settings. The first is a worst-case bound for polytopes defined by integer constraints in terms of the height of the integers and certain subdeterminants of the constraint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Hariharan Narayanan , Rikhav Shah , Nikhil Srivastava

In this paper we prove that among all convex domains of the plane with two axis of symmetry, the maximizer of the first non trivial Neumann eigenvalue $\mu_1$ with perimeter constraint is achieved by the square and the equilateral triangle.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Antoine Henrot , Antoine Lemenant , Ilaria Lucardesi

Many algorithmic problems can be solved (almost) as efficiently in metric spaces of bounded doubling dimension as in Euclidean space. Unfortunately, the metric space defined by points in a simple polygon equipped with the geodesic distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mark de Berg , Prosenjit Bose , Leonidas Theocharous

We prove a bound for the geodesic diameter of a subset of the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$ described by a fixed number of quadratic equations and inequalities, which is polynomial in $n$, whereas the known bound for general degree is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-27 Michel Coste , Seydou Moussa

An old conjecture states that among all simplices inscribed in the unit sphere the regular one has the maximal mean width. An equivalent formulation is that for any centered Gaussian vector $(\xi_1,\dots,\xi_n)$ satisfying $\mathbb…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Zakhar Kabluchko , Alexander E. Litvak , Dmitry Zaporozhets

We explore an instance of the question of partitioning a polygon into pieces, each of which is as ``circular'' as possible, in the sense of having an aspect ratio close to 1. The aspect ratio of a polygon is the ratio of the diameters of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mirela Damian , Joseph O'Rourke

We use computational experiments to find the rectangles of minimum perimeter into which a given number n of non-overlapping congruent circles can be packed. No assumption is made on the shape of the rectangles. In many of the packings…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-03 Boris D. Lubachevsky , Ronald L. Graham

Given any convex $n$-gon, in this article, we: (i) prove that its vertices can form at most $n^2/2 + \Theta(n\log n)$ isosceles trianges with two sides of unit length and show that this bound is optimal in the first order, (ii) conjecture…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-09-16 Amol Aggarwal

We present a complete system of inequalities for the inradius, circumradius, and diameter in the $3$-dimensional Euclidean space. To do so, we prove quasiconcavity of the inradius evaluated over $n$-simplices with a common facet…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-08 René Brandenberg , Bernardo González Merino , Mia Runge

The problem of the optimal approximation of circular arcs by parametric polynomial curves is considered. The optimality relates to the Hausdorff distance and have not been studied yet in the literature. Parametric polynomial curves of low…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Aleš Vavpetič , Emil Žagar