A problem of Kusner on equilateral sets

DOI10.1007/S00013-003-4840-8MaRDI QIDQ706361zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Konrad J. Swanepoel

Publication date 8 February 2005

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309317

zbMATH Keywords

equilateral set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Convexity and finite-dimensional Banach spaces (including special norms, zonoids, etc.) (aspects of convex geometry) (52A21) Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10)

Abstract: R. B. Kusner [R. Guy, Amer. Math. Monthly 90 (1983), 196--199] asked whether a set of vectors in a d-dimensional real vector space such that the l-p distance between any pair is 1, has cardinality at most d+1. We show that this is true for p=4 and any d >= 1, and false for all 1<p<2 with d sufficiently large, depending on p. More generally we show that the maximum cardinality is at most $(2lceilp/4ceil-1)d+1$ if p is an even integer, and at least $(1+epsilo{n}_p)d$ if 1<p<2, where $epsilo{n}_p>0$ depends on p.

Review text

R. B. Kusner asked whether the maximum number of vectors in the \(d\)-dimensional space, with unit pairwise distance defined through the norm \(\| .\| _p\), is \(d+1\). The paper gives affirmative answer for \(p=4\), and a negative answer for \(1<p<2\), if \(d\) is sufficiently large in terms of \(p\).

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