Subtended angles (Q312334)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6627521
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    Subtended angles
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6627521

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      Subtended angles (English)
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      15 September 2016
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      In this paper, the authors study the following problem: Suppose that \(d\geq2\) and \(m\) are fixed. What is the largest \(n\) such that, given any \(n\) distinct angles \(0 < \theta_1, \theta_2, \dots, \theta_n < \pi\), we can realise all these angles by placing \(m\) points in \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\)? The paper has six sections. The first section is an introductive chapter which presents the main results that are going to be demonstrated. In Section 2, the authors prove the lower bound in 2 dimensions, and in Section 3 the upper bound in 2 dimensions. In the next section, they prove the higher dimensional upper bound. In Section 5, the authors prove the following theorem: ``Suppose that \(d\) and \(\epsilon\) are fixed. Then there exists a constant \(c\) such that any \(n = dm-c\) angles, all lying between \(\epsilon\) and \(\pi-\epsilon\), can be realised using \(m\) points.'' In the last section, the authors propose some open questions.
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