Conjectural description of maximizers for the maximum product of distances
Conjectural description of maximizers for the maximum product of distances
Let . Let be an -gon with that attains .
Maximizer structure conjecture. The following properties hold:
- If is odd, is a regular -gon.
- If is even, has an axis of symmetry. Moreover, if , then is invariant under rotation by , and hence has dihedral symmetry compatible with this rotational symmetry.
- If is even, the diameter graph of is obtained from a cycle 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 and explicit asymptotic constructions. The proposed description remains conjectural because the extremal configurations for finite 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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