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Line systems passing through the origin of the $d$ dimensional Euclidean space admitting exactly two distinct angles are called biangular. It is shown that the maximum cardinality of biangular lines is at least $2(d-1)(d-2)$, and this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Mikhail Ganzhinov , Ferenc Szöllősi

The relation between equiangular sets of lines in the real space and distance-regular double covers of the complete graph is well known and studied since the work of Seidel and others in the 70's. The main topic of this paper is to continue…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Gabriel Coutinho , Chris Godsil , Mirhamed Shirazi , Harmony Zhan

A set of vectors of equal norm in $\mathbb{C}^d$ represents equiangular lines if the magnitudes of the Hermitian inner product of every pair of distinct vectors in the set are equal. The maximum size of such a set is $d^2$, and it is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Jonathan Jedwab , Amy Wiebe

We develop the theory of equiangular lines in Euclidean spaces. Our focus is on the question of when a Seidel matrix having precisely three distinct eigenvalues has a regular graph in its switching class. We make some progress towards an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Gary R. W. Greaves

We introduce the notion of p-adic equiangular lines and derive the first fundamental relation between common angle, dimension of the space and the number of lines. More precisely, we show that if $\{\tau_j\}_{j=1}^n$ is p-adic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 K. Mahesh Krishna

Answering a question of Jiang and Polyanskii as well as Jiang, Tidor, Yao, Zhang, and Zhao, we show the existence of infinitely many angles $\theta$ for which the maximum number of lines in $\mathbb R^n$ meeting at the origin with pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Carl Schildkraut

Expository article on the problem of determining the maximum number of equiangular lines with a fixed angle, and the associated problem of second eigenvalue multiplicity in graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Yufei Zhao

Given a set of $n$ points in $R^2$, the Szemer\'edi-Trotter theorem establishes that the number of lines which can be incident to at least $k > 1$ of these points is $O(n^2/k^3 + n/k)$. J.\ Solymosi conjectured that if one requires the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-31 G. Amirkhanyan , A. Bush , E. Croot , C. Pryby

A set of lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$ passing through the origin is called equiangular if any two lines in the set form the same angle. We proved an alternative version of the three-point semidefinite constraints developed by Bachoc and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Wei-Jiun Kao , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We show that the maximum cardinality of an equiangular line system in 14 and 16 dimensions is 28 and 40, respectively, thereby solving a longstanding open problem. We also improve the upper bounds on the cardinality of equiangular line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Gary R. W. Greaves , Jeven Syatriadi , Pavlo Yatsyna

In `A survey of two-graphs' \cite{Sei}, J.J. Seidel lays out the connections between simple graphs, two-graphs, equiangular lines and strongly regular graph. It is well known that there is a one-to-one correspondence between regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Thomas Hoffman , James Solazzo

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

For $e$ a positive integer, we find restrictions modulo $2^e$ on the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial $\chi_S(x)$ of a Seidel matrix $S$. We show that, for a Seidel matrix of order $n$ even (resp. odd), there are at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Gary R. W. Greaves , Pavlo Yatsyna

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

In 1965 Erd\H{o}s conjectured that the number of edges in k-uniform hypergraphs on n vertices in which the largest matching has s edges is maximized for hypergraphs of one of two special types. We settled this conjecture in the affirmative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Tomasz Luczak , Katarzyna Mieczkowska

A set of n non-collinear points in the Euclidean plane defines at least n different lines. Chen and Chv\'tal in 2008 conjectured that the same results is true in metric spaces for an adequate definition of line. More recently, it was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Gabriela Araujo-Pardo , Martín Matamala , Juan P. Peña , José Zamora

New bounds on the number of similar or directly similar copies of a pattern within a finite subset of the line or the plane are proved. The number of equilateral triangles whose vertices all lie within an $n$-point subset of the plane is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Bernardo Abrego , Silvia Fernandez-Merchant , Daniel J. Katz , Levon Kolesnikov

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

A classic theorem of Euclidean geometry asserts that any noncollinear set of $n$ points in the plane determines at least $n$ distinct lines. Chen and Chv\'atal conjectured that this holds for an arbitrary finite metric space, with a certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Pierre Aboulker , Xiaomin Chen , Guangda Huzhang , Rohan Kapadia , Cathryn Supko

A double-normal pair of a finite set $S$ of points from $R^d$ is a pair of points $\{p,q\}$ from $S$ such that $S$ lies in the closed strip bounded by the hyperplanes through $p$ and $q$ perpendicular to $pq$. A double-normal pair $pq$ is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 János Pach , Konrad Swanepoel