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We consider a problem posed by Erd\H{o}s, Herzog and Piranian on the maximum product of distances of a point set of order $n$ with a given diameter. We prove that it is sufficient to consider convex polygons and obtain results on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Stijn Cambie , Arne Decadt , Yanni Dong , Tao Hu , Quanyu Tang

We prove that every set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$ spans $O(n^{295/197+\epsilon})$ unit distances. This is an improvement over the previous bound of $O(n^{3/2})$. A key ingredient in the proof is a new result for cutting circles in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Joshua Zahl

We give a sharp lower bound to the largest possible Euclidean norm of signed sums of $n$ vectors in the plane. This is achieved by connecting the signed vector sum problem to the isoperimetric problem for the circumradius of polygons. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Florian Grundbacher

We define a special network that exhibits the large embeddings in any class of similar algebras. With the aid of this network, we introduce a notion of distance that conceivably counts the minimum number of dissimilarities, in a sense,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Tuğba Aslan , Mohamed Khaled , Gergely Székely

We consider a finite fields version of the Erd\H{o}s-Falconer distance problem for two different sets. In a certain range for the sizes of the two sets we obtain results of the conjectured order of magnitude.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Rainer Dietmann

Guth and Katz proved that any point set $\mathcal P$ in the plane determines $\Omega(|\mathcal P|/\log|\mathcal P|)$ distinct distances. We show that when near to this lower bound, a point set $\mathcal P$ of the form $A\times A$ must…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Brandon Hanson

It is proved that for any finite dimensional representation of a prime order group over the field of rational numbers, polynomial invariants of degree at most $3$ separate the orbits. A result providing an upper degree bound for separating…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Mátyás Domokos

Given a set of N points, we have discovered an algorithm that can separate these points from one another by n-dimensional planes. Each point is chosen at random and put into a set S and planes which separate them are determined and put into…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-10-26 K. Eswaran

In 1959, Erd\H{o}s and Moser asked for the maximum number of unit distances that may be formed among the vertices of a convex $n$-gon; until now, the best known upper bound has been $2\pi n \log_2 n + O(n)$, achieved by F\"uredi in 1990. In…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Amol Aggarwal

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$, no three collinear and not all coplanar. If at most $n-k$ are coplanar and $n$ is sufficiently large, the total number of planes determined is at least $1 + k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-12 George B. Purdy , Justin W. Smith

We prove that any set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, any three of which form an angle less than $\frac{\pi}{3} + c$, has size $(1+\Theta(c))^d$ for sufficiently small $c>0$. The proof is based on a refinement of an approach by Erd\H{o}s and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Miroslav Marinov

For a set of distances D={d_1,...,d_k} a set A is called D-avoiding if no pair of points of A is at distance d_i for some i. We show that the density of A is exponentially small in k provided the ratios d_1/d_2, d_2/d_3, ..., d_{k-1}/d_k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-24 Boris Bukh

In this paper we study some Erdos type problems in discrete geometry. Our main result is that we show that there is a planar point set of n points such that no four are collinear but no matter how we choose a subset of size $n^{5/6+o(1)} $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Jozsef Balogh , Jozsef Solymosi

In this paper we provide a method of finding possible numbers of shortest paths between two points in a space of compact sets in Euclidean space with Hausdorff distance. We also prove that there cannot be some of the numbers of shortest…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Zakhar Ovsyannikov

Under the assumption of infinitely many Siegel zeroes $s$ with $Re(s)>1-\frac{1}{(\log q)^{R}}$ for a sufficiently large value of $R$, we prove that there exist infinitely many $m$-tuples of primes that are $\ll e^{1.9828m}$ apart. This…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Thomas Wright

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

We present two short proofs giving the best known asymptotic lower bound for the maximum element in a set of $n$ positive integers with distinct subset sums.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Quentin Dubroff , Jacob Fox , Max Wenqiang Xu

It is proven that there are infinitely prime pairs whose difference is no greater than 84. In proving that result, a new sieve weight is constructed. The new idea is to construct the largest sieve support which admits the use of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Chunlei Liu

A well-known theorem of de Bruijn and Erd\H{o}s states that any set of $n$ non-collinear points in the plane determines at least $n$ lines. Chen and Chv\'{a}tal asked whether an analogous statement holds within the framework of finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Ida Kantor , Balazs Patkos

Error bounds have been studied for more than seventy years, beginning with the seminal result of Hoffman (1952) [{\it J. Res. Natl. Bur. Standards}, 49 (1952), 263--265], which establishes an upper bound for the distance from an arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Zhou Wei , Michel Thera , Jen-Chih Yao