English
Related papers

Related papers: Bounds on three- and higher-distance sets

200 papers

In a recent paper Petrov and Pohoata developed a new algebraic method which combines the Croot-Lev-Pach Lemma from additive combinatorics and Sylvester's Law of Inertia for real quadratic forms. As an application, they gave a simple proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Gábor Hegedüs , Lajos Rónyai

A dominating set $S$ of a graph is a metric-locating-dominating set if each vertex of the graph is uniquely distinguished by its distances from the elements of $S$, and the minimum cardinality of such a set is called the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-14 Antonio González , Carmen Hernando , Mercè Mora

We derive upper and lower bounds on the sum of distances of a spherical code of size $N$ in $n$ dimensions when $N\sim n^\alpha, 0<\alpha\le 2.$ The bounds are derived by specializing recent general, universal bounds on energy of spherical…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Alexander Barg , Peter Boyvalenkov , Maya Stoyanova

An ordered set $S$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is a resolving set for $G$ if every vertex is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in $S$. The metric dimension of G is the minimum cardinality of a resolving set. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Mercè Mora , María José Souto Salorio , Ana Dorotea Tarrío-Tobar

Alternative novel measures of the distance between any two partitions of a n-set are proposed and compared, together with a main existing one, namely 'partition-distance' D(.,.). The comparison achieves by checking their restriction to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-06-24 Giovanni Rossi

We first describe a reduction from the problem of lower-bounding the number of distinct distances determined by a set $S$ of $s$ points in the plane to an incidence problem between points and a certain class of helices (or parabolas) in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-05-07 György Elekes , Micha Sharir

In this short note we give a new upper bound for the size of a set family with a single Hamming distance. Our proof is an application of the linear algebra bound method.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-28 Gábor Hegedüs

In this paper we investigate the Erd\"os/Falconer distance conjecture for a natural class of sets statistically, though not necessarily arithmetically, similar to a lattice. We prove a good upper bound for spherical means that have been…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alex Iosevich , Misha Rudnev

A finite set of points in $\mathbb R^d$ is called almost-equidistant if among any three distinct points in the set, some two are at unit distance. We prove that an almost-equidistant set in $\mathbb R^d$ has cardinality at most $5d^{13/9}$.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Alexandr Polyanskii

Kusner asked if $n+1$ points is the maximum number of points in $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that the $\ell_p$ distance $(1<p<\infty)$ between any two points is $1$. We present an improvement to the best known upper bound when $p$ is large in terms…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Richard Chen , Feng Gui , Jason Tang , Nathan Xiong

We investigate spherical 4-distance 7-designs by studying their distance distributions. We compute these distance distributions and use their product (an integer) to derive certain divisibility conditions relating the dimension $n$ and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Peter Boyvalenkov , Navid Safaei

Let $\mbox{$\cal F$}\subseteq 2^{[n]}$ be a fixed family of subsets. Let $D(\mbox{$\cal F$})$ stand for the following set of Hamming distances: $$ D(\mbox{$\cal F$}):=\{d_H(F,G):~ F, G\in \mbox{$\cal F$},\ F\neq G\}. $$ $\mbox{$\cal F$}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Gábor Hegedüs

In this paper, we study the cardinality of the distance set $\Delta(A, B)$ determined by two subsets $A$ and $B$ of the $d$-dimensional vector space over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. Assuming that $A$ or $B$ lies in a $k$-coordinate plane…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Hunseok Kang , Doowon Koh , Firdavs Rakhmonov

The problem of bounding of the distance between the two bodies of volume $\varepsilon$ located inside the $n$-dimensional body $B$ of unit volume where $n \to \infty$ is considered. In some cases such distances are bounded by function…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Fyodor Ivlev

We define three-point bounds for sphere packing that refine the linear programming bound, and we compute these bounds numerically using semidefinite programming by choosing a truncation radius for the three-point function. As a result, we…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Henry Cohn , David de Laat , Andrew Salmon

Let $S$ be a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^2$ contained in a circle and $P$ an unrestricted point set in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We prove the number of distinct distances between points in $S$ and points in $P$ is at least…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Alex McDonald , Brian McDonald , Jonathan Passant , Anurag Sahay

It is known that every closed curve of length \leq 4 in R^n (n>0) can be surrounded by a sphere of radius 1, and that this is the best bound. Letting S denote the circle of circumference 4, with the arc-length metric, we here express this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-15 George M. Bergman

A resolving set of a graph is a set of vertices with the property that the list of distances from any vertex to those in the set uniquely identifies that vertex. In this paper, we construct a resolving set of Johnson graphs, doubled Odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-11 Jun Guo , Kaishun Wang , Fenggao Li

In this paper we show that the number of distinct distances determined by a set of $n$ points on a constant-degree two-dimensional algebraic variety $V$ (i.e., a surface) in $\mathbb R^3$ is at least $\Omega\left(n^{7/9}/{\rm polylog}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Micha Sharir , Noam Solomon

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in Euclidean $3$-space. Assign to each $x\in S$ a distance $r(x)>0$, and let $e_r(x,S)$ denote the number of points in $S$ at distance $r(x)$ from $x$. Avis, Erd\H{o}s and Pach (1988) introduced the extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Konrad J. Swanepoel