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Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in the real plane contained in an algebraic curve $C$ of degree $d$. We prove that the number of distinct distances determined by $P$ is at least $c_d n^{4/3}$, unless $C$ contains a line or a circle. We also…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-20 János Pach , Frank de Zeeuw

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

We derive a new estimate of the size of finite sets of points in metric spaces with few distances. The following applications are considered: (1) we improve the Ray-Chaudhuri--Wilson bound of the size of uniform intersecting families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-29 Alexander Barg , Oleg R. Musin

This is an incomplete attempt to show that the upper bound of $\lesssim n^\frac{4}{3}$ on the number unit distances determined by a large finite set of $n$ points in the plane is not sharp. The methods also say something about sets of $n$…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Steven Senger

For a given real number $\alpha$, let us place the fractional parts of the points $0, \alpha, 2 \alpha,$ $ \cdots, (N-1) \alpha$ on the unit circle. These points partition the unit circle into intervals having at most three lengths, one…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Valérie Berthé , Dong Han Kim

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

Let $\{p_1, \ldots , p_n \} \subset {\Bbb{R}}^2$ be a separated point set, i.e., any two points have a distance at least $1$. Let $k \ge 1$ be an integer, and $1 \le t_1 < \ldots < t_k$ be real numbers. Let $\delta > 0$. Suppose for all $1…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 P. Erdős , E. Makai, , J. Pach

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane that determines at most $n/5$ distinct distances. We show that no line can contain more than $O(n^{43/52}{\rm polylog}(n))$ points of $P$. We also show a similar result for rectangular distances,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Orit E. Raz , Oliver Roche-Newton , Micha Sharir

A Euclidean noncrossing Steiner $(1+\epsilon)$-spanner for a point set $P\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ is a planar straight-line graph that, for any two points $a, b \in P$, contains a path whose length is at most $1+\epsilon$ times the Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Sujoy Bhore , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Lazar Milenković , Csaba D. Tóth , Karol Węgrzycki , Sampson Wong

It is shown that given a set of $N$ points in the plane or on the sphere, there is a subset of size $\gtrsim N^{1/3}/\log N$ with all pairwise distances between points distinct.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Marcos Charalambides

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

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

We prove that if $P$ is a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{C}^2$, then either the points in $P$ determine $\Omega(n^{1-\epsilon})$ complex distances, or $P$ is contained in a line with slope $\pm i$. If the latter occurs then each pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Adam Sheffer , Joshua Zahl

Erd\H{o}s asked the following question: given $n$ points in the plane in almost general position (no 4 collinear), how large a set can we guarantee to find that is in general position (no 3 collinear)? F\"uredi constructed a set of $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Luka Milićević

Algebraic integers in totally imaginary quartic number fields are not discrete in the complex plane under a fixed embedding, which makes it impossible to visualize all integers in the plane, unlike the quadratic imaginary algebraic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Wenhan Wang

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

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

A planar integral point set is a set of non-collinear points in plane such that for any pair of the points the Euclidean distance between the points is integral. We discuss the classification of planar integral point sets and provide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Nikolai Avdeev , Ekaterina Momot , Aleksandr Zvolinskiy

The concept of $n$-distance was recently introduced to generalize the classical definition of distance to functions of $n$ arguments. In this paper we investigate this concept through a number of examples based on certain geometrical…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Gergely Kiss , Jean-Luc Marichal

We propose constructions of codes over quotient rings of Eisenstein integers equipped with the Euclidean, square Euclidean, and hexagonal distances as a generalization of codes over Eisenstein integer fields. By set partitioning, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Abdul Hadi , Uha Isnaini , Indah Emilia Wijayanti , Martianus Frederic Ezerman