Schur's conjecture on intersecting unit simplices

Let S1S_1 and S2S_2 be two unit simplices in Rd\mathbb R^d forming a set of diameter 11, with kk and mm vertices respectively, and assume kmk\geq m. Schur's conjecture. The simplices S1S_1 and S2S_2 share at least

min{0,k+2m2d2}\min\{0,k+2m-2d-2\}

vertices. The conjecture arose in the study of cliques in diameter graphs and was confirmed in the two special cases (k,m,d)=(d,d,d)(k,m,d)=(d,d,d) for d2d\geq2 and (k,m,d)=(5,3,4)(k,m,d)=(5,3,4), but its general resolution status is not established by the supplied evidence.

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Primary source

Alexandr Polyanskii, “On almost-equidistant sets - II”, arXiv:1708.02039 (2019).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1505.04952.

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