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We derive a procedure for computing an upper bound on the number of equiangular lines in various Euclidean vector spaces by generalizing the classical pillar decomposition developed by (Lemmens and Seidel, 1973); namely, we use linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Emily J. King , Xiaoxian Tang

We construct a set of $2^n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that all pairwise Manhattan distances are odd integers, which improves the recent linear lower bound of Golovanov, Kupavskii and Sagdeev. In contrast to the Euclidean and maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Emma Hogan , Freddie Illingworth , Lukas Michel , Julien Portier , Jun Yan

Erd\H{o}s' unit distance problem and Erd\H{o}s' distinct distances problem are among the most classical and well-known open problems in discrete mathematics. They ask for the maximum number of unit distances, or the minimum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Noga Alon , Matija Bucić , Lisa Sauermann

For a subset A of a field F, write A(A + 1) for the set {a(b + 1):a,b\in A}. We establish new estimates on the size of A(A+1) in the case where F is either a finite field of prime order, or the real line. In the finite field case we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-06 Timothy G. F. Jones , Oliver Roche-Newton

We obtain all extreme and exposed points of the closed unit ball of the space of bilinear forms $T:\ell_{\infty}^{2}\times\ell_{\infty}^{2}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}.$ We also show that any (norm one) bilinear form $T:\ell_{\infty…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Wasthenny Cavalcante , Daniel Pellegrino

Two Delone sets are bounded distance equivalent to each other if there is a bijection between them such that the distance of corresponding points is uniformly bounded. Bounded distance equivalence is an equivalence relation. We show that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Dirk Frettlöh , Alexey Garber , Lorenzo Sadun

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

The Erd\H{o}s-Anning theorem states that every point set in the Euclidean plane with integer distances must be either collinear or finite. More strongly, for any (non-degenerate) triangle of diameter~$\delta$, at most $O(\delta^2)$ points…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-13 David Eppstein

It is shown that each continuous transformation $h$ from Euclidean $m$-space ($m>1$) into Euclidean $n$-space that preserves the equality of distances (that is, fulfils the implication $|x-y|=|z-w|\Rightarrow|h(x)-h(y)|=|h(z)-h(w)|$) is a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jobst Heitzig

Let p > 4 be a prime. We show that the largest subset of F_p^n with no 4-term arithmetic progressions has cardinality << N(log N)^{-c}, where c = 2^{-22} and N := p^n. A result of this type was claimed in a previous paper by the authors and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Ben Green , Terence Tao

We discuss two main ways in comparing and evaluating the size of sets: the "Cantorian" way, grounded on the so called Hume principle (two sets have equal size if they are equipotent), and the "Euclidean" way, maintaining Euclid's principle…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Marco Forti

In this article, we prove that the Schur Multiplier of a finite $p$-group of maximal class of order $p^n ~(4 \leq n \leq p+1)$ is elementary abelian. The case $n = p+1$ settles a question raised by Primo\v{z} Moravec in an earlier article.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Renu Joshi , Siddhartha Sarkar

We extend a result, due to Mattila and Sjolin, which says that if the Hausdorff dimension of a compact set $E \subset {\Bbb R}^d$, $d \ge 2$, is greater than $\frac{d+1}{2}$, then the distance set $\Delta(E)=\{|x-y|: x,y \in E \}$ contains…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Alex Iosevich , Mihalis Mourgoglou , Krystal Taylor

We study Erd\H os's distinct distances problem under $\ell_p$ metrics with integer $p$. We improve the current best bound for this problem from $\Omega(n^{4/5})$ to $\Omega(n^{6/7-\epsilon})$, for any $\epsilon>0$. We also characterize the…

One classical result of Freimann gives the optimal lower bound for the cardinality of A+A if A is a d-dimensional finite set in the Euclidean d-space. Matolcsi and Ruzsa have recently generalized this lower bound to |A+kB| if B is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Karoly Boroczky , Francisco Santos , Oriol Serra

Consider the Delaunay triangulation T of a set P of points in the plane as a Euclidean graph, in which the weight of every edge is its length. It has long been conjectured that the dilation in T of any pair p, p \in P, which is the ratio of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Prosenjit Bose , Luc Devroye , Maarten Löffler , Jack Snoeyink , Vishal Verma

A famous conjecture of Erd\H{o}s asserts that for $k\ge 3$, the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph without $s+1$ pairwise disjoint edges is $\max\{\binom{n}{k}-\binom{n-s}{k},\binom{sk+k-1}{k}\}$. This problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Peter Frankl , Hongliang Lu , Jie Ma , Yuze Wu

Using the Parametric Geometry of Numbers introduced recently by W.M. Schmidt and L. Summerer and results by D. Roy, we show that German's transference inequalities between the two most classical exponents of uniform Diophantine…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Antoine Marnat

A set of lines through the origin in Euclidean space is called equiangular when any pair of lines from the set intersects with each other at a common angle. We study the maximum size of equiangular lines in Euclidean space and use graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Yen-chi Roger Lin , Wei-Hsuan Yu

For any positive integers $n\ge d+1\ge 3$, what is the maximum size of a $(d+1)$-uniform set system in $[n]$ with VC-dimension at most $d$? In 1984, Frankl and Pach initiated the study of this fundamental problem and provided an upper bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Gennian Ge , Zixiang Xu , Chi Hoi Yip , Shengtong Zhang , Xiaochen Zhao