The tropical equilateral-dimension conjecture

Let d4a3nd4a3^n be equipped with the tropical metric, and let etr(Rn)\mathrm{e}_{\mathrm{tr}}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) denote the maximal cardinality of a tropical equilateral subset of d4a3nd4a3^n. The tropical equilateral-dimension conjecture.

etr(Rn)=(n+1(n+1)/2).\mathrm{e}_{\mathrm{tr}}(\mathbb{R}^{n})=\binom{n+1}{\lfloor (n+1)/2\rfloor}.

The lower bound is attained by an explicit equilateral set in Zn\mathbb{Z}^n, and equality is proved in dimensions 22 and 33 and for points on a tropical sphere at pairwise tropical distance 2R2R. The general conjecture remains open.

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Amnon Rosenmann, “On the chromatic number and equilateral dimension of R^n with the tropical norm”, arXiv:2606.16642 (2026).

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