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The set of points in a metric space is called an $s$-distance set if pairwise distances between these points admit only $s$ distinct values. Two-distance spherical sets with the set of scalar products $\{\alpha, -\alpha\}$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Alexey Glazyrin , Wei-Hsuan Yu

In 1976 Simmons conjectured that every coloring of a 2-dimensional sphere of radius strictly greater than $1/2$ in three colors has a couple of monochromatic points at the distance 1 apart. We prove this conjecture.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Danila Cherkashin , Vsevolod Voronov

Finding the maximum cardinality of a $2$-distance set in Euclidean space is a classical problem in geometry. Lison\v{e}k in 1997 constructed a maximum $2$-distance set in $\mathbb R^8$ with $45$ points. That $2$-distance set constructed by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Eiichi Bannai , Etsuko Bannai , Chin-Yen Lee , Ziqing Xiang , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We establish the dimension version of Falconer's distance set conjecture for sets of equal Hausdorff and packing dimension (in particular, for Ahlfors-regular sets) in all ambient dimensions. In dimensions $d=2$ or $3$, we obtain the first…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Pablo Shmerkin , Hong Wang

We investigate the box dimensions of compact sets in $\mathbb{R}^2$ that contain a unit distance in every direction (such sets may have zero Hausdorff dimension). Among other results, we show that the lower box dimension must be at least…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Pablo Shmerkin , Han Yu

We investigate dimension-theoretic properties of concentric topological spheres, which are fractal sets emerging both in pure and applied mathematics. We calculate the box dimension and Assouad spectrum of such collections, and use them to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Efstathios Konstantinos Chrontsios Garitsis

It is known that in $\mathbb{R}^n,n\geq 2$, a compact set which contains $n-1$ spheres with all radii in $[1/2,1]$ or with all possible centres in $[0,1]^n$ has full Hausdorff dimension. In fact the later set has positive Lebesgue measure.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Han Yu

A set S of unit vectors in n-dimensional Euclidean space is called spherical two-distance set, if there are two numbers a and b, and inner products of distinct vectors of S are either a or b. The largest cardinality g(n) of spherical…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Oleg R. Musin

In the concluding remarks of their 1993 published and now famous paper, Jeff Kahn and Gil Kalai wrote in particular: "Our construction shows that Borsuk's conjecture is false for d = 1,325 and for every d > 2,014." But, as Bernulf Weiszbach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Thomas Jenrich

The Borsuk number $b(n)$ of $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$ is the smallest integer such that any set $F \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ of unit diameter can be partitioned into $b(n)$ subsets of strictly smaller diameter. For $n=4$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Alexander Tolmachev , Vsevolod Voronov

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

A finite collection of unit vectors $S \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is called a spherical two-distance set if there are two numbers $a$ and $b$ such that the inner products of distinct vectors from $S$ are either $a$ or $b$. We prove that if $a\ne…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Alexander Barg , Alexei Glazyrin , Kasso Okoudjou , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We investigate the size of the distance set determined by two subsets of finite dimensional vector spaces over finite fields. A lower bound of the size is given explicitly in terms of cardinalities of the two subsets. As a result, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Doowon Koh , Hae-Sang Sun

A set of points $S$ in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ is called a 2-distance set if the set of pairwise distances between the points has cardinality two. The 2-distance set is called spherical if its points lie on the unit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Iliyas Noman , Yuan Yao

We establish upper bounds for the size of two-distance sets in Euclidean space and spherical two-distance sets. The main recipe for obtaining upper bounds is the spectral method. We construct Seidel matrices to encode the distance relations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Wei-Chun Chen , Wei-Hsuan Yu

The lattice diameter of a bounded set $S \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ measures the maximal number of lattice points in a segment whose endpoints are lattice points in $S$. Such a segment is called a lattice diameter segment of $S$. This simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Anouk E. Brose , Jesús A. De Loera , Gyivan Lopez-Campos , Antonio J. Torres

Classical Borsuk problem asks about the minimal number of closed subsets of smaller diameter necessary to partition every compact in the Euclidean space. Topological version of the Borsuk problem is discussed.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yan Soibelman

We study "distance spheres": the set of points lying at constant distance from a fixed arbitrary subset $K$ of $[0,1]^d$. We show that, away from the regions where $K$ is "too dense" and a set of small volume, we can decompose $[0,1]^d$…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Guy C. David , McKenna Kaczanowski , Dallas Pinkerton

We study the Falconer distance set problem in Euclidean space and obtain improved dimensional estimates under natural Fourier analytic assumptions cast in terms of the Fourier dimension and spectrum. Interestingly, under reasonably mild…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Jonathan M. Fraser , Thang Pham

In this paper, we prove a geometrical inequality which states that for any four points on a hemisphere with the unit radius, the largest sum of distances between the points is 4+4*sqrt(2). In our method, we have constructed a rectangular…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zhenbing Zeng , Jian Lu , Yaochen Xu , Yuzheng Wang