Erdős's density conjecture for distance-1-avoiding sets in the plane

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In the normed vector space (Rn,∥⋅∥)(\mathbb{R}^n,\|\cdot\|), a measurable set A⊆RnA\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n avoids distance 1 if ∥x−y∥≠1\|x-y\|\neq 1 for all x,y∈Ax,y\in A. Let m1(Rn,∥⋅∥)m_1(\mathbb{R}^n,\|\cdot\|) be the supremum of the upper densities of measurable sets avoiding distance 11, and write m1(R2)m_1(\mathbb{R}^2) for m1(R2,∥⋅∥2)m_1(\mathbb{R}^2,\|\cdot\|_2). Erdős's conjecture.

m1(R2)<14.m_1(\mathbb{R}^2)<\frac{1}{4}.

The conjecture would improve the known upper bound for the maximal density of a distance-1-avoiding set in the Euclidean plane; at the time of the source, the best known lower bound was 0.22930.2293 and the best upper bound was approximately 0.256880.25688.

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Thomas Bellitto, Arnaud Pêcher and Antoine Sédillot, “On the density of sets of the Euclidean plane avoiding distance 1”, arXiv:1810.00960 (2022).

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