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We consider the number of distinct distances between two finite sets of points in ${\bf R}^k$, for any constant dimension $k\ge 2$, where one set $P_1$ consists of $n$ points on a line $l$, and the other set $P_2$ consists of $m$ arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Ariel Bruner , Micha Sharir

A subset of a metric space is a k-distance set if there are exactly k non-zero distances occuring between points. We conjecture that a k-distance set in a d-dimensional Banach space (or Minkowski space), contains at most (k+1)^d points,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-07 Konrad J. Swanepoel

A subset of points in a metric space is said to resolve it if each point in the space is uniquely characterized by its distance to each point in the subset. In particular, resolving sets can be used to represent points in abstract metric…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Manuel E. Lladser , Alexander J. Paradise

A periodic lattice in Euclidean space is the infinite set of all integer linear combinations of basis vectors. Any lattice can be generated by infinitely many different bases. This ambiguity was only partially resolved, but standard…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Vitaliy Kurlin

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

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

Let $(X,d)$ be a finite metric space with $|X|=n$. For a positive integer $k$ we define $A_k(X)$ to be the quotient set of all $k$-subsets of $X$ by isometry, and we denote $|A_k(X)|$ by $a_k$. The sequence $(a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_{n})$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Mitsugu Hirasaka , Masashi Shinohara

An $m$-distance set is a collection of points such that the distances between any two points have $m$ possible values. We use two different methods to construct large $m$-distance sets on the triangular lattices. One is to use the first m…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Li-Ren Bao , Wei-Hsuan Yu

A subset $S$ of vertices of a connected graph $G$ is a distance-equalizer set if for every two distinct vertices $x, y \in V (G) \setminus S$ there is a vertex $w \in S$ such that the distances from $x$ and $y$ to $w$ are the same. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-09 A. González , C. Hernando , M. Mora

We define two notions of discrete dimension based on the Minkowski and Hausdorff dimensions in the continuous setting. After proving some basic results illustrating these definitions, we apply this machinery to the study of connections…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-10 Alex Iosevich , Misha Rudnev , Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero

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 {\em faithful (unit) distance graph} in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a graph whose set of vertices is a finite subset of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, where two vertices are adjacent if and only if the Euclidean distance between them is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Noga Alon , Andrey Kupavskii

A Euclidean distance matrix $D(\alpha)$ is defined by $D_{ij}=(\alpha_i-\alpha_j)^2$, where $\alpha=(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n)$ is a real vector. We prove that $D(\alpha)$ cannot be written as a sum of $\left[2\sqrt{n}-2\right]$ nonnegative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Yaroslav Shitov

Let $X$ be a metric space and $BCl(X)$ the collection of nonempty bounded closed subsets of $X$. We show that Hausdorff distance $d_H$ belongs to a specific family of real-valued distances on $BCl(X)$, each of which can be expressed as the…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Earnest Akofor

The set of distances of a monoid or of a domain is the set of all $d \in \mathbb N$ with the following property: there are irreducible elements $u_1, \ldots, u_k, v_1, \ldots, v_{k+d}$ such that $u_1 \cdot \ldots \cdot u_k = v_1 \cdot…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Alfred Geroldinger , Qinghai Zhong

Let X be a real normed vector space and dim X \ge 2. Let d>0 be a fixed real number. We prove that if x,y \in X and ||x-y||/d is a rational number then there exists a finite set {x,y} \subseteq S(x,y) \subseteq X with the following…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Apoloniusz Tyszka

A point set $P \subset {\Bbb{R}}^d$ is {\it separated} if the minimum distance between any two points in $P$ is at least $1$. For $d \ne 4,5,$ we determine, for every $t_1,t_2 \ge 1$, and for $n$ at least a suitable $n_d$, the maximum…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-07 P. Erdős , E. Makai, , J. Pach

This paper presents a distance function between sets based on an average of distances between their elements. The distance function is a metric if the sets are non-empty finite subsets of a metric space. It can be applied to produce various…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Osamu Fujita

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

This paper considers an extremal version of the Erd\H{o}s distinct distances problem. For a point set $P \subset \mathbb R^d$, let $\Delta(P)$ denote the set of all Euclidean distances determined by $P$. Our main result is the following: if…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Oliver Roche-Newton , Dmitrii Zhelezov