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The three distance theorem (also known as the three gap theorem or Steinhaus problem) states that, for any given real number $\alpha$ and integer $N$, there are at most three values for the distances between consecutive elements of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Alan Haynes , Jens Marklof

The well-known three distance theorem states that there are at most three distinct gaps between consecutive elements in the set of the first n multiples of any real number. We generalise this theorem to higher dimensions under a suitable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sujith Vijay

According to Suk's breakthrough result on the Erdos-Szekeres problem, any point set in general position in the plane, which has no $n$ elements that form the vertex set of a convex $n$-gon, has at most $2^{n+O\left({n^{2/3}\log n}\right)}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Andreas F. Holmsen , Hossein Nassajian Mojarrad , János Pach , Gábor Tardos

We consider a problem posed by Erd\H{o}s, Herzog and Piranian on the maximum product of distances of a point set of order $n$ with a given diameter. We prove that it is sufficient to consider convex polygons and obtain results on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Stijn Cambie , Arne Decadt , Yanni Dong , Tao Hu , Quanyu Tang

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 new tur\'an-type problem on distances on graphs was introduced by Tyomkyn and Uzzell. In this paper, we focus on the case that the distance is two. We primely show that for any value of $n$, a graph on $n$ vertices without three vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Xueliang Li , Jing Ma , Yongtang Shi , Jun Yue

Let $ES_{d}(n)$ be the smallest integer such that any set of $ES_{d}(n)$ points in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ in general position contains $n$ points in convex position. In 1960, Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres showed that $ES_{2}(n) \geq 2^{n-2} + 1$ holds,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Cosmin Pohoata , Dmitrii Zakharov

The deletion distance between two binary words $u,v \in \{0,1\}^n$ is the smallest $k$ such that $u$ and $v$ share a common subsequence of length $n-k$. A set $C$ of binary words of length $n$ is called a $k$-deletion code if every pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Noga Alon , Gabriela Bourla , Ben Graham , Xiaoyu He , Noah Kravitz

An $m$-distance set is a collection of points such that the distances between any two points have $m$ possible values. We use two different methods to construct large $m$-distance sets on the triangular lattices. One is to use the first m…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Li-Ren Bao , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We show that for any log-concave measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$, any pair of symmetric convex sets $K$ and $L$, and any $\lambda\in [0,1],$ $$\mu((1-\lambda) K+\lambda L)^{c_n}\geq (1-\lambda) \mu(K)^{c_n}+\lambda\mu(L)^{c_n},$$ where…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Galyna V. Livshyts

Let H be a 3-uniform hypergraph of order n with clique number k such that the intersection of all maximum cliques of H is empty. For fixed m=n-k, Szemer\'edi and Petruska conjectured the sharp bound $n\leq {m+2\choose 2}$. In this note the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Adam S. Jobson , André E. Kézdy , Jenő Lehel

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

An n-gon is defined as a sequence \P=(V_0,...,V_{n-1}) of n points on the plane. An n-gon \P is said to be convex if the boundary of the convex hull of the set {V_0,...,V_{n-1}} of the vertices of \P coincides with the union of the edges…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Iosif Pinelis

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in the real plane contained in an algebraic curve $C$ of degree $d$. We prove that the number of distinct distances determined by $P$ is at least $c_d n^{4/3}$, unless $C$ contains a line or a circle. We also…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-20 János Pach , Frank de Zeeuw

We derive tight expressions for the maximum number of $k$-faces, $0\le{}k\le{}d-1$, of the Minkowski sum, $P_1+...+P_r$, of $r$ convex $d$-polytopes $P_1,...,P_r$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $d\ge{}2$ and $r<d$, as a (recursively defined)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Menelaos I. Karavelas , Eleni Tzanaki

Computing the Fr\'echet distance between two polygonal curves takes roughly quadratic time. In this paper, we show that for a special class of curves the Fr\'echet distance computations become easier. Let $P$ and $Q$ be two polygonal curves…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Joachim Gudmundsson , Majid Mirzanezhad , Ali Mohades , Carola Wenk

We consider the notion of information distance between two objects x and y introduced by Bennett, G\'acs, Li, Vitanyi, and Zurek [1] as the minimal length of a program that computes x from y as well as computing y from x, and study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Bruno Bauwens , Alexander Shen

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

Let $V \subset \mathbb{R}$ be a finite set with $|V| = n $ and suppose we are given each pairwise distance independently with probability $p$. We show that if $p = (1+\epsilon)/n$, for some fixed $\epsilon >0$, then we can reconstruct a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Julien Portier

In the maximum independent set of convex polygons problem, we are given a set of $n$ convex polygons in the plane with the objective of selecting a maximum cardinality subset of non-overlapping polygons. Here we study a special case of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Fabrizio Grandoni , Edin Husić , Mathieu Mari , Antoine Tinguely