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For any positive integers $n\ge d+1\ge 3$, what is the maximum size of a $(d+1)$-uniform set system in $[n]$ with VC-dimension at most $d$? In 1984, Frankl and Pach initiated the study of this fundamental problem and provided an upper bound…

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We study the number of the vectors determined by two sets in d-dimensional vector spaces over finite fields. We observe that the lower bound of cardinality for the set of vectors can be given in view of an additive energy or the decay of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-11 Doowon Koh , Chun-Yen Shen

In 1984, Frankl and Pach proved that, for positive integers $n$ and $d$, the maximum size of a $(d+1)$-uniform set family $\mathcal{F}$ on an $n$-element set with VC-dimension at most $d$ is at most ${n\choose d}$; and they suspected that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Tianchi Yang , Xingxing Yu

Bollob\'as-type theorem determines the maximum cardinality of a Bollob\'as system of sets. The original result has been extended to various mathematical structures beyond sets, including vector spaces and affine spaces. This paper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Erfei Yue , Benjian Lv , Péter Sziklai , Kaishun Wang

A finite set X in a metric space M is called an s-distance set if the set of distances between any two distinct points of X has size s. The main problem for s-distance sets is to determine the maximum cardinality of s-distance sets for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-24 Oleg R. Musin , Hiroshi Nozaki

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

Let $b$ be a non-degenerate symmetric (respectively, alternating) bilinear form on a finite-dimensional vector space $V$, over a field with characteristic different from $2$. In a previous work, we have determined the maximal possible…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Clément de Seguins Pazzis

A subset of a normed space $X$ is called equilateral if the distance between any two points is the same. Let $m(X)$ be the smallest possible size of an equilateral subset of $X$ maximal with respect to inclusion. We first observe that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Konrad J. Swanepoel , Rafael Villa

A subset $X$ in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space is called a $k$-distance set if there are exactly $k$ distinct distances between two distinct points in $X$ and a subset $X$ is called a locally $k$-distance set if for any point $x$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-10 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara

The midpoint set M(S) of a set S of points is the set of all midpoints of pairs of points in S. We study the largest cardinality of a midpoint set M(S) in a finite-dimensional normed space, such that M(S) is contained in the unit sphere,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-26 Konrad J. Swanepoel

For any graph $G = (V,E)$ and positive integer $d$, the exact distance-$d$ graph $G_{=d}$ is the graph with vertex set $V$, where two vertices are adjacent if and only if the distance between them in $G$ is $d$. We study the exact…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Agustina Victoria Ledezma , Adrián Pastine , Mario Valencia-Pabon

In this paper, we study the pure $\kappa-$sparse gapsets and our focus on getting information about the sequence observed in Table 3 at [1], this sequence is listed in OEIS as A374773. We verify that the cardinality of the set of gapsets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Gilberto Brito , Stéfani Vieira

A set in d dimensional Euclidean space with d larger than 2 having Hausdorff dimension at least d/2 must have distance set with Hausdorff dimension strictly greater than 1/2.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nets Hawk Katz

Let $E^n$ denote the (real) $n$-dimensional Euclidean space. It is not known whether an equilateral set in the $\ell_1$ sum of $E^a$ and $E^b$, denoted here as $E^a \oplus_1 E^b$, has maximum size at least $\dim(E^a \oplus_1 E^b) + 1 = a +…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Aaron Lin

A subset $D\subseteq V(G)$ is called a $k$-distance dominating set of $G$ if every vertex in $V(G)\setminus D$ is within distance $k$ from some vertex of $D$. The minimum cardinality among all $k$-distance dominating sets of $G$ is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-04 D. A. Mojdeh , S. R. Musawi , E. Nazari

We investigate the size of the distance set determined by two subsets of finite dimensional vector spaces over finite fields. A lower bound of the size is given explicitly in terms of cardinalities of the two subsets. As a result, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Doowon Koh , Hae-Sang Sun

We study the Erd\H os-Falconer distance problem for a set $A\subset \mathbb{F}^2$, where $\mathbb{F}$ is a field of positive characteristic $p$. If $\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{F}_p$ and the cardinality $|A|$ exceeds $p^{5/4}$, we prove that $A$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Brendan Murphy , Giorgis Petridis , Thang Pham , Misha Rudnev , Sophie Stevens

We have the Fisher type inequality and the linear programming bound as upper bounds for the cardinalities of $s$-distance sets on $S^{d-1}$. In this paper, we give a new upper bound for the cardinalities of $s$-distance sets on $S^{d-1}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-29 Hiroshi Nozaki

P. Erd\H{o}s, J. Pach, R. Pollack, and Z. Tuza [J. Combin. Theory, B 47 (1989), 279--285] made conjectures for the maximum diameter of connected graphs without a complete subgraph $K_{k+1}$, which have order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Éva Czabarka , Stephen J. Smith , László Székely

A celebrated theorem of Kleitman in extremal combinatorics states that a collection of binary vectors in $\{0, 1\}^n$ with diameter $d$ has cardinality at most that of a Hamming ball of radius $d/2$. In this paper, we give an algebraic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Hao Huang , Oleksiy Klurman , Cosmin Pohoata