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We consider point sets in the affine plane $\mathbb{F}_q^2$ where each Euclidean distance of two points is an element of $\mathbb{F}_q$. These sets are called integral point sets and were originally defined in $m$-dimensional Euclidean…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Sascha Kurz

We study the complexity of geometric problems on spaces of low fractal dimension. It was recently shown by [Sidiropoulos & Sridhar, SoCG 2017] that several problems admit improved solutions when the input is a pointset in Euclidean space…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Anastasios Sidiropoulos , Kritika Singhal , Vijay Sridhar

In this paper, we study the problem of computing the diameter of a set of $n$ points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space for a fixed dimension $d$, and propose a new $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm with $O(n+ 1/\varepsilon^{d-1})$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Mahdi Imanparast , Seyed Naser Hashemi , Ali Mohades

A finite point set in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is in general position if no $d + 1$ points lie on a common hyperplane. Let $\alpha_d(N)$ be the largest integer such that any set of $N$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, with no $d + 2$ members on a common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Andrew Suk , Ji Zeng

Sidon sets are those sets such that the sums of two of its elements never coincide. They go back to the 30s when Sidon asked for the maximal size of a subset of consecutive integers with that property. This question is now answered in a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Laurent Habsieger , Alain Plagne

For $ E\subset \mathbb{F}_q^d$, let $\Delta(E)$ denote the distance set determined by pairs of points in $E$. By using additive energies of sets on a paraboloid, Koh, Pham, Shen, and Vinh (2020) proved that if $E,F\subset \mathbb{F}_q^d $…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Daewoong Cheong , Doowon Koh , Thang Pham

Finding the maximum size of a Sidon set in $\mathbb{F}_2^t$ is of research interest for more than 40 years. In order to tackle this problem we recall a one-to-one correspondence between sum-free Sidon sets and linear codes with minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Ingo Czerwinski , Alexander Pott

Let $E_d(n)$ be the maximum number of pairs that can be selected from a set of $n$ points in $R^d$ such that the midpoints of these pairs are convexly independent. We show that $E_2(n)\geq \Omega(n\sqrt{\log n})$, which answers a question…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-26 Konrad J. Swanepoel , Pavel Valtr

We prove that if two finitely generated groups act on a metrically complete 2-dimensional Euclidean building, then the distance between their fixed-point sets is realised. Our proof uses the geometry of Euclidean buildings, which we view as…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Harris Leung , Jeroen Schillewaert , Anne Thomas

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 spherical three-distance set is a finite collection $X$ of unit vectors in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ such that for each pair of distinct vectors has three inner product values. We use the semidefinite programming method to improve the upper bounds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Feng-Yuan Liu , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We construct a $2$-distance set with $277$ points in the $23$-dimensional Euclidean space having distances $2$ and $\sqrt{6}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Hong-Jun Ge , Jack Koolen , Akihiro Munemasa

A set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is acute, if any three points from this set form an acute angle. In this note we construct an acute set in $\mathbb{R}^d$ of size at least $2^{d/2}$.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-04 D. Zakharov

For a finite point set $P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, denote by $\text{diam}(P)$ the ratio of the largest to the smallest distances between pairs of points in $P$. Let $c_{d, \alpha}(n)$ be the largest integer $c$ such that any $n$-point set $P…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Boris Bukh , Zichao Dong

The Erd\H os unit distance conjecture in the plane says that the number of pairs of points from a point set of size $n$ separated by a fixed (Euclidean) distance is $\leq C_{\epsilon} n^{1+\epsilon}$ for any $\epsilon>0$. The best known…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Alex Iosevich

We consider point sets in the $m$-dimensional affine space $\mathbb{F}_q^m$ where each squared Euclidean distance of two points is a square in $\mathbb{F}_q$. It turns out that the situation in $\mathbb{F}_q^m$ is rather similar to the one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Sascha Kurz , Harald Meyer

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

We prove algorithmic and hardness results for the problem of finding the largest set of a fixed diameter in the Euclidean space. In particular, we prove that if $A^*$ is the largest subset of diameter $r$ of $n$ points in the Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-03-15 Peyman Afshani , Hamed Hatami

An equidistant set in the Euclidean space consists of points having equal distances to both members of a given pair of sets, called focal sets. Since there is no effective formula to compute the distance of a point and a set, it is hard to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Á. Nagy , M. Oláh , M. Stoika , Cs. Vincze

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