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Deployment and dispersion in triangular regions

Definitions (from C. Stanley Ogilvy's 'Tomorrow's Math'): Deployment: To place a specified number $n$ of points (stations) in a region such that the maximum distance of any point in the region from ...
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Find the axis of symmetry in a point cloud

I have some dataset which describes a spherical cloud of points in 4D space. Actually, the coordinates of the points are the coefficients of unit quaternions, so you get the idea on what the data is ...
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finding the most-isolated point in a high-dimensional cube

I have a set of points {$x_1,\ldots,x_n$} located in the d-dimensional unit cube $[0,1]^d$. $n$ is about 1000 and $d$ is about 25. I'd like to find $\max_{\omega\in [0,1]^d}\min_{i=1,\ldots,n} \|\...
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Minimizing variance of distances between points when mean distance is fixed

In Rd, I have n > d+1 points. The mean distance between pairs of points is 1. How can I minimize the variance of the distances (equivalently, the mean squared distance)? I'm mainly interested in d &...