Let n k denote the number of times the kth largest distance occurs among a set S of n points in the Euclidean plane. We prove that n2 ~< 2~n for arbitrary set S. This upper bound is sharp. We consider the set S of n arbitrary points in R 2. We denote the largest distance between two points in S by
The two largest distances in finite planar sets
β Scribed by Katalin Vesztergombi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 333 KB
- Volume
- 150
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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β¦ Synopsis
We determine all homogenous linear inequalities satisfied by the numbers of occurrences of the two largest distances among n points in the plane.
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