Equilateral weights on the unit ball of R^n

Abstract: An equilateral set (or regular simplex) in a metric space

X

, is a set

A

such that the distance between any pair of distinct members of

A

is a constant. An equilateral set is standard if the distance between distinct members is equal to

1

. Motivated by the notion of frame-functions, as introduced and characterized by Gleason in cite{Gl}, we define an equilateral weight on a metric space

X

to be a function

f : X o m a t h b b R

such that

s u m_{i i n I} f (x_{i}) = W

, for every maximal standard equilateral set

x_{i} : i i n I

in

X

, where

W i n m a t h b b R

is the weight of

f

. In this paper we characterize the equilateral weights associated with the unit ball

B^{n}

of

m a t h b b R^{n}

as follows: For

n g e 2

, every equilateral weight on

B^{n}

is constant.

Review text

An equilateral set (a regular simplex) in a metric space is a set for which the distance of any pair of distinct points is the same number. It is called standard, if this number is 1. For a fixed \(W \in \mathbb{R}\), an equilateral weight if the sum of its values at points of an arbitrary standard equilateral set is \(W\). The paper studies properties of equilateral sets and equilateral weights in unit balls of \(n\)-dimensional Euclidean spaces. It is shown that for dimensions over 2 every equilateral weight on a unit ball is constant.

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