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We prove that there are arbitrarily large equilateral sets of planar and symmetric convex bodies in the Banach--Mazur distance. The order of the size of these $d$-equilateral sets asymptotically matches the bounds of the size of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Tomasz Kobos , Konrad 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

Geometrical objects with integral side lengths have fascinated mathematicians through the ages. We call a set $P=\{p_1,...,p_n\}\subset\mathbb{Z}^2$ a maximal integral point set over $\mathbb{Z}^2$ if all pairwise distances are integral and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Andrey Radoslavov Antonov , Sascha Kurz

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $k$-sized subsets of $[n]$ that does not contain $s$ pairwise disjoint subsets. The Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture, a celebrated and long-standing open problem in extremal combinatorics, asserts the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Tapas Kumar Mishra

A set of lines in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is called equiangular if the angle between each pair of lines is the same. We address the question of determining the maximum size of equiangular line sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$, using semidefinite programming…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Alexander Barg , Wei-Hsuan Yu

Let $M_n$ denote the largest interpoint distance among independent random points $X_1,\dots,X_n$ uniformly distributed in a compact set in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Weak limit laws for $M_n$ are known in several geometric settings, in particular for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Norbert Henze

For infinitely many primes $p=4k+1$ we give a slightly improved upper bound for the maximal cardinality of a set $B\subset \ZZ_p$ such that the difference set $B-B$ contains only quadratic residues. Namely, instead of the "trivial" bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Christine Bachoc , Imre Z. Ruzsa , Mate Matolcsi

In this paper, we study the following classical question of extremal set theory: what is the maximum size of a family of subsets of $[n]$ such that no $s$ sets from the family are pairwise disjoint? This problem was first posed by Erd\H os…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Peter Frankl , Andrey Kupavskii

Let $A\subseteq \mathbb{Z}_p^2$ be a set of size $2p+1$ for prime $p\geq 5$. In this paper, we prove that $A\hat{+}A=\{a_1+a_2\mid a_1,a_2\in A, a_1\neq a_2\}$ has cardinality at least $4p$. This result is the first advancement in over two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Jacinda Terkel

We employ signed measures that are positive definite up to certain degrees to establish Levenshtein-type upper bounds on the cardinality of codes with given minimum and maximum distances, and universal lower bounds on the potential energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Peter Boyvalenkov , Peter Dragnev , Douglas Hardin , Edward Saff , Maya Stoyanova

Pach showed that every $d+1$ sets of points $Q_1,\dotsc,Q_{d+1} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ contain linearly-sized subsets $P_i\subset Q_i$ such that all the transversal simplices that they span intersect. We show, by means of an example, that a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Boris Bukh , Alfredo Hubard

In the spirit of the Genetics of the Regular Figures, by L. Fejes T\'oth, we prove the following theorem: If $2n$ points are selected in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean ball $B^n$ so that the smallest distance between any two of them is as…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wlodzimierz Kuperberg

We have the Fisher type inequality and the linear programming bound as upper bounds for the cardinalities of $s$-distance sets on $S^{d-1}$. In this paper, we give a new upper bound for the cardinalities of $s$-distance sets on $S^{d-1}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-29 Hiroshi Nozaki

A subset $X$ in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space is called a $k$-distance set if there are exactly $k$ distinct distances between two distinct points in $X$ and a subset $X$ is called a locally $k$-distance set if for any point $x$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-10 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara

The Szemer\'edi-Trotter theorem gives a bound on the maximum number of incidences between points and lines on the Euclidean plane. In particular it says that $n$ lines and $n$ points determine $O(n^{4/3})$ incidences. Let us suppose that an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jozsef Solymosi

This is an expository paper on the largest size of equilateral sets in finite-dimensional normed spaces.

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

We prove that there is an absolute constant $ C$ such that for every $ n \geq 2 $ and $ N\geq 10^n, $ there exists a polytope $ P_{n,N} \subset \mathbb{R}^n $ with at most $ N $ facets that satisfies…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Gil Kur

Let $r_k(n)$ denote the maximum cardinality of a set $A \subset \{1,2, \dots, n \}$ such that $A$ does not contain a $k$-term arithmetic progression. In this paper, we give a method of constructing such a set and prove the lower bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Vladislav Taranchuk

A theorem of Erdos asserts that every infinite subset of Euclidean n-space R^n has a subset of the same cardinality having no repeated distances. This theorem is generalized here as follows: If (R^n,E) is an algebraic hypergraph that does…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-12-01 James H. Schmerl

Let $r_5(N)$ be the largest cardinality of a set in $\{1,\ldots,N\}$ which does not contain $5$ elements in arithmetic progression. Then there exists a constant $c\in (0,1)$ such that \[r_5(N)\ll \frac{N}{\exp((\log\log N)^{c})}.\] Our work…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-11 James Leng , Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney