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Two-dimensional networks of ordered quantum dots beyond the percolation threshold are studied, as typical example of conducting nanostructures with quenched random disorder. Theory predicts anomalous diffusion with stretched-exponential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-06 Fabrizio Cleri

The three distance theorem (also known as the three gap theorem or Steinhaus problem) states that, for any given real number $\alpha$ and integer $N$, there are at most three values for the distances between consecutive elements of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Alan Haynes , Jens Marklof

Measuring the distance between data points is fundamental to many statistical techniques, such as dimension reduction or clustering algorithms. However, improvements in data collection technologies has led to a growing versatility of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-20 George Bolt , Simón Lunagómez , Christopher Nemeth

In high dimension, low sample size (HDLSS)settings, the simple average distance classifier based on the Euclidean distance performs poorly if differences between the locations get masked by the scale differences. To rectify this issue,…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-09 Sarbojit Roy , Soham Sarkar , Subhajit Dutta

Zador's celebrated theorem is a cornerstone of optimal quantisation, establishing both the weak limit of the empirical distribution of an $n$-point optimal quantiser in $R^d$ and the decay rate of the associated $L_s$-mean quantisation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Luc Pronzato , Anatoly Zhigljavsky

Wasserstein distances are widely used in modern data analysis but pose significant computational and statistical challenges in high dimensions. The sliced Wasserstein distance alleviates these challenges by leveraging one-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 David Rodríguez-Vítores , Eustasio del Barrio , Jean-Michel Loubes

This work considers the asymptotic behavior of the distance between two sample covariance matrices (SCM). A general result is provided for a class of functionals that can be expressed as sums of traces of functions that are separately…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Roberto Pereira , Xavier Mestre , David Gregoratti

We address the problem, not of the determination -- which usually needs numerical methods -- but of an accurate analytical estimation of the distance of a raw elasticity tensor to cubic symmetry and to orthotropy. We point out that there…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Rodrigue Desmorat , Boris Kolev

Uniform measures have played a fundamental role in geometric measure theory since they naturally appear as tangent objects. For instance, they were essential in the groundbreaking work of Preiss on the rectifiability of Radon measures.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-26 A. Dali Nimer

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

We consider a Serrin-type problem in convex cones in the Euclidean space and motivated by recent rigidity results we study the quantitative stability issue for this problem. In particular, we prove both sharp Lipschitz estimates for an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Filomena Pacella , Giorgio Poggesi , Alberto Roncoroni

Discrete partially ordered sets can be turned into distance spaces in several ways. The distance functions may or may not satisfy the triangle inequality, and restriction of the distance to finite chains may or may not coincide with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Stephan Foldes

In this note we compare two ways of measuring the $n$-dimensional "flatness" of a set $S\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, where $n\in \mathbb{N}$ and $d>n$. The first one is to consider the classical Reifenberg-flat numbers $\alpha(x,r)$ ($x \in S$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Ivan Yuri Violo

For a set $E \subseteq \mathbb{F}_q^d$, the distance set is defined as $\Delta(E) := \{\|\mathbf{x} - \mathbf{y}\| : \mathbf{x}, \mathbf{y} \in E\}$, where $\|\cdot\|$ denotes the standard quadratic form. We investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Daewoong Cheong , Gennian Ge , Doowon Koh , Thang Pham , Dung The Tran , Tao Zhang

We study lattice points in d-dimensional spheres, and count their number in thin spherical segments. We found an upper bound depending only on the radius of the sphere and opening angle of the segment. To obtain this bound we slice the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Martin Ortiz Ramirez

This paper presents a distance function between sets based on an average of distances between their elements. The distance function is a metric if the sets are non-empty finite subsets of a metric space. It can be applied to produce various…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Osamu Fujita

The distance function $\varrho(p,q)$ (or $d(p,q)$) of a distance space (general metric space) is not differentiable in general. We investigate such distance spaces over $\mathbb R^n$, whose distance functions are differentiable like in case…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 L. Tamássy , D. Cs. Kertész

In this paper, we mainly consider the problem of spherical distribution of 5 points, that is, how to configure 5 points on a sphere such that the mutual distance sum attains the maximum. It is conjectured that the sum of distances is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-06-05 Xiaorong Hou , Junwei Shao

A fundamental problem in spherical distance geometry aims to recover an $n$-tuple of points on a 2-sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, viewed up to oriented isometry, from $O(n)$ input measurements. We solve this problem using algorithms that employ…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Katie Waddle

A pair of probability distributions over $\{0,1\}^n$ is said to be $(k,\delta)$-wise indistinguishable if all of the size $k$ marginals are within statistical distance at most $\delta$. Previous works introduced this concept and study when…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Christopher Williamson