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In this paper, we propose a class of elementary plane geometry problems closely related to the title of this paper. Here, a circle is the 1-dimensional curve bounding a disk. For any nonnegative integer, a circle is called $n$-enclosing if…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Jianqiang Zhao

We study the minimum number of distinct distances between point sets on two curves in $R^3$. Assume that one curve contains $m$ points and the other $n$ points. Our main results: (a) When the curves are conic sections, we characterize all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Toby Aldape , Jingyi Liu , Gregory Pylypovych , Adam Sheffer , Minh-Quan Vo

A balanced configuration of points on the sphere $S^2$ is a (finite) set of points which are in equilibrium if they act on each other according any force law dependent only on the distance between two points. The configuration is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Laura Pierson , Julian Wellman

Enumeration of all combinatorial types of point configurations and polytopes is a fundamental problem in combinatorial geometry. Although many studies have been done, most of them are for 2-dimensional and non-degenerate cases. Finschi and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-26 Komei Fukuda , Hiroyuki Miyata , Sonoko Moriyama

This article focuses on the occurrence of 3-point configurations in subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$ of sufficient thickness. We prove that a compact set $A\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ contains a similar copy of any linear $3$-point configuration (such…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Samantha Sandberg-Clark , Krystal Taylor

We establish maximal trees and graphs for the difference of average distance and proximity proving thus the corresponding conjecture posed in [4]. We also establish maximal trees for the difference of average eccentricity and remoteness and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Jelena Sedlar

Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field of order $q$. Iosevich and Rudnev (2005) proved that for any set $A\subset \mathbb{F}_q^d$, if $|A|\gg q^{\frac{d+1}{2}}$, then the distance set $\Delta(A)$ contains a positive proportion of all…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Doowon Koh , Minh Quy Pham , Thang Pham

Let $\mathbf{p}$ be a configuration of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for some $n$ and some $d \ge 2$. Each pair of points defines an edge, which has a Euclidean length in the configuration. A path is an ordered sequence of the points, and a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Ioannis Gkioulekas , Steven J. Gortler , Louis Theran , Todd Zickler

We study the probabilistic existence of point configurations satisfying the $(0, m, d)$-net property in base $b$ within a randomly generated point set of size $N$ in the $d$-dimensional unit cube. We first derive an upper bound on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Kohei Suzuki , Takashi Goda

We generalize work of Erdos and Fishburn to study the structure of finite point sets that determine few distinct triangles. Specifically, we ask for a given $t$, what is the maximum number of points that can be placed in the plane to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Alyssa Epstein , Adam Lott , Steven J. Miller , Eyvindur A. Palsson

We study the order dimension of the lattice of closed sets for a convex geometry. Further, we prove the existence of large convex geometries realized by planar point sets that have very low order dimension. We show that the planar point set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Jonathan E. Beagley

Since ancient times mathematicians consider geometrical objects with integral side lengths. We consider plane integral point sets $\mathcal{P}$, which are sets of $n$ points in the plane with pairwise integral distances where not all the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Sascha Kurz , Alfred Wassermann

Graphlets are subgraphs rooted at a fixed vertex. The number of occurrences of graphlets aligned to a particular vertex, called graphlet degree sequence (gds), gives a topological description of the surrounding of the analyzed vertex.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 David Hartman , Aneta Pokorná , Daniel Trlifaj , Lluís Vena

Defining distances over finite fields formally by $||x-y||:=(x_1-y_1)^2+\cdots + (x_d-y_d)^2$ for $x,y\in \mathbb{F}_q^d$, distance problems naturally arise in analogy to those studied by Erd\H{o}s and Falconer in Euclidean space. Given a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Esen Aksoy , Alex Iosevich , Brian McDonald

Configurations of points defined by complex reflection groups have attracted a lot of attention recently in several directions of research, e.g., the containment problem between ordinary and symbolic powers of ideals, in the theory of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Sebastian Calvo , Jack Huizenga , Tomasz Szemberg

We study percolation on the hierarchical lattice of order $N$ where the probability of connection between two points separated by distance $k$ is of the form $c_k/N^{k(1+\delta)},\; \delta >-1$. Since the distance is an ultrametric, there…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Donald Dawson , Luis Gorostiza

The tensorial equations for non trivial fully interacting fixed points at lowest order in the $\varepsilon$ expansion in $4-\varepsilon$ and $3-\varepsilon$ dimensions are analysed for $N$-component fields and corresponding multi-index…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Hugh Osborn , Andreas Stergiou

The celebrated Szemer\'edi--Trotter theorem states that the maximum number of incidences between $n$ points and $n$ lines in the plane is $O(n^{4/3})$, which is asymptotically tight. Solymosi (2005) conjectured that for any set of points…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Martin Balko , Nóra Frankl

A homogeneous set of $n$ points in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space determines at least $\Omega(n^{2d/(d^2+1)} / \log^{c(d)} n)$ distinct distances for a constant $c(d)>0$. In three-space, we slightly improve our general bound and show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-17 J. Solymosi , Cs. D. Toth

Consider l lines in P^2 such that no three lines meet in a point. Let X(l) denote all points of intersections of these l lines. We describe all pairs (d,l) such that generic degree d curve in P^2 contains a X(l).

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-26 Enrico Carlini , Adam Van Tuyl