A problem of Kusner on equilateral sets

dc.creatorSwanepoel, Konrad J.
dc.date2003-09-19
dc.date2006-09-07
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:35:43Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:35:43Z
dc.descriptionR. 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 $(2\lceil p/4\rceil-1)d+1$ if p is an even integer, and at least $(1+ε_p)d$ if 1<p<2, where $ε_p>0$ depends on p.
dc.description6 pages. Small correction to Proposition 2
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309317
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309317
dc.identifierArchiv der Mathematik (Basel) 83 (2004), no. 2, 164--170
dc.identifierdoi:10.1007/s00013-003-4840-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/99876
dc.subjectMetric Geometry
dc.subjectFunctional Analysis
dc.subject52C10 (Primary) 52A21, 46B20 (Secondary)
dc.titleA problem of Kusner on equilateral sets
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