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Arrangement of points, lines, and planes
Is it possible to construct a finite nontrivial arrangement of points, lines, and planes in 3-dimensional Euclidean space with the following properties?
every line is incident with four points and ...
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Trade-off between covering number, ball radius and diameter of $d$-dimensional shapes
Given any $d$-dimensional shape $X$ in the Euclidean space, let $\ell(X)$ be the length of the longest line segment connecting two points of $X$. How can we prove the following statement?
There exists ...
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Trade-off between hypervolume and diameter of $d$-dimensional shapes having a hypercubic smallest bounding box
Given any $d$-dimensional shape $X$, let $V(X)$ be its $d$-dimensional volume, and let $\ell(X)$ be the length of the longest line segment connecting two points of $X$.
Let $\mathcal{S}_C$ be the set ...
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How large can a set of nearly equidistant points be?
Suppose that $D$ is a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^{k}$ such that all pairwise distances between them belong to $[1,1+\epsilon]$.
It seems that such a set cannot be very large and that its ...
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Maximum number of mutually equidistant points in an n-dimensional Euclidean space is (n+1). Proof? [closed]
How to prove that the maximum number of mutually equidistant points in an n-dimensional Euclidean space is (n+1)?