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The Hausdorff distance is a measure of (dis-)similarity between two sets which is widely used in various applications. Most of the applied literature is devoted to the computation for sets consisting of a finite number of points. This has…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Daniel Kraft

We prove that for any $E\subset{\Bbb R}^2$, $\dim_{\mathcal{H}}(E)>1$, there exists $x\in E$ such that the Hausdorff dimension of the pinned distance set $$\Delta_x(E)=\{|x-y|: y \in E\}$$ is no less than…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Bochen Liu

In this paper we extend the results of Lenci and Rey-Bellet on the large deviation upper bound of the distribution measures of local Hamiltonians with respect to a Gibbs state, in the setting of translation-invariant finite-range…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fumio Hiai , Milan Mosonyi , Tomohiro Ogawa

We consider four related problems. (1) Obtaining dimension estimates for the set of exceptional vantage points for the pinned Falconer distance problem. (2) Nonlinear projection theorems, in the spirit of Kaufman, Bourgain, and Shmerkin.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Orit E. Raz , Joshua Zahl

We give a definition of thickness in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that is useful even for totally disconnected sets, and prove a Gap Lemma type result. We also guarantee an interval of distances in any direction in thick compact sets, relate thick sets…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Alexia Yavicoli

The {\em bottleneck distance} is a natural measure of the distance between two finite point sets of equal cardinality, defined as the minimum over all bijections between the point sets of the maximum distance between any pair of points put…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Brendan Mumey

We investigate the minimal error in approximating a general probability measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ by the uniform measure on a finite set with prescribed cardinality $n$. The error is measured in the $p$-Wasserstein distance. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Filippo Quattrocchi

Given $E \subseteq \mathbb{F}_q^d \times \mathbb{F}_q^d$, with the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ of order $q$ and the integer $d \ge 2$, we define the two-parameter distance set as $\Delta_{d, d}(E)=\left\{\left(\|x_1-y_1\|,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Clément Francois , Hossein Nassajian Mojarrad , Duc Hiep Pham , Chun-Yen Shen

We consider the set multi-cover problem in geometric settings. Given a set of points P and a collection of geometric shapes (or sets) F, we wish to find a minimum cardinality subset of F such that each point p in P is covered by (contained…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-04 Chandra Chekuri , Kenneth L. Clarkson , Sariel Har-Peled

Weighted fractional Poincar\'e-type inequalities are proved on John domains whenever the weights defined on the domain are depending on the distance to the boundary and to an arbitrary compact set in the boundary of the domain.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Ritva Hurri-Syrjänen , Fernando López-García

We prove new combinatorial results about polynomial configurations in large subsets of finite fields. Bergelson--Leibman--McCutcheon (2005) showed that for any polynomial $P(x) \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ with $P(0) = 0$, if $A \subseteq…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Ethan Ackelsberg , Vitaly Bergelson

We study the biased random walk in positive random conductances on $\mathbb {Z}^d$. This walk is transient in the direction of the bias. Our main result is that the random walk is ballistic if, and only if, the conductances have finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-16 Alexander Fribergh

Optimal transport and its related problems, including optimal partial transport, have proven to be valuable tools in machine learning for computing meaningful distances between probability or positive measures. This success has led to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Xinran Liu , Yikun Bai , Huy Tran , Zhanqi Zhu , Matthew Thorpe , Soheil Kolouri

We show that there exists an absolute positive constant $b (\geq \frac{1}{48})$ so that any set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that is $d$-dimensional determines at least $bdn$ lines with pairwise distinct directions. As a consequence we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Noga Alon , Rom Pinchasi

We prove an analogue for homogeneous trees and certain affine buildings of a result of Bourgain on pinned distances in sets of positive density in Euclidean spaces. Furthermore, we construct an example of a non-homogeneous tree with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 M. Björklund , A. Fish , J. Parkinson

Let $p$ be a prime integer, $1\leq s\leq r$ integers, $F$ a field of characteristic $p$. Let $\cat{Dec}_{p^r}$ denote the class of the tensor product of $r$ $p$-symbols and $\cat{Alg}_{p^r,p^s}$ denote the class of central simple algebras…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-12-23 Sanghoon Baek

Previously, Erd\H{o}s, Kierstead and Trotter investigated the dimension of random height~$2$ partially ordered sets. Their research was motivated primarily by two goals: (1)~analyzing the relative tightness of the F\"{u}redi-Kahn upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Csaba Biró , Peter Hamburger , H. A. Kierstead , Attila Pór , William T. Trotter , Ruidong Wang

The Erd\H{o}s distinct distance problem is a ubiquitous problem in discrete geometry. Somewhat less well known is Erd\H{o}s' distinct angle problem, the problem of finding the minimum number of distinct angles between $n$ non-collinear…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Henry L. Fleischmann , Sergei V. Konyagin , Steven J. Miller , Eyvindur A. Palsson , Ethan Pesikoff , Charles Wolf

We survey the history and recent developments around two decades-old problems that continue to attract a great deal of interest: the slicing $\times 2$, $\times 3$ conjecture of H. Furstenberg in ergodic theory, and the distance set problem…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Pablo Shmerkin

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