Subtended angles

Abstract: We consider the following question. Suppose that

d g e 2

and

n

are fixed, and that

h e t a_{1}, h e t a_{2}, d o t s, h e t a_{n}

are

n

specified angles. How many points do we need to place in

m a t h b b R^{d}

to realise all of these angles? A simple degrees of freedom argument shows that

m

points in

m a t h b b R^{2}

cannot realise more than

2 m - 4

general angles. We give a construction to show that this bound is sharp when

m g e 5

. In

d

dimensions the degrees of freedom argument gives an upper bound of

general angles. However, the above result does not generalise to this case; surprisingly, the bound of

2 m - 4

from two dimensions cannot be improved at all. Indeed, our main result is that there are sets of

2 m - 3

of angles that cannot be realised by

m

points in any dimension.

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