Conjectural description of maximizers for the maximum product of distances

Let n3n\ge 3. Let P=z1,,znCP=\\{z_1,\dots,z_n\\}\subset\mathbb{C} be an nn-gon with diam(P)2\operatorname{diam}(P)\le 2 that attains Δ(P)=Δmax(n)\Delta(P)=\Delta_{\max}(n).

Maximizer structure conjecture. The following properties hold:

  1. If nn is odd, PP is a regular nn-gon.
  2. If nn is even, PP has an axis of symmetry. Moreover, if 6n6\mid n, then PP is invariant under rotation by 2π/32\pi/3, and hence has dihedral symmetry compatible with this 120120^\circ rotational symmetry.
  3. If nn is even, the diameter graph of PP is obtained from a cycle Cn3C_{n-3} by attaching three pendant edges to vertices of the cycle.

This conjecture refines the structural restrictions and numerical evidence developed in the paper, including the observed behavior for small nn and explicit asymptotic constructions. The proposed description remains conjectural because the extremal configurations for finite nn are difficult to determine; proving these properties would give a substantially sharper characterization of the maximizers.

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Stijn Cambie, Arne Decadt, Yanni Dong, Tao Hu and Quanyu Tang, “On the maximum product of distances of diameter 2 point sets”, arXiv:2603.07088 (2026).

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