Finiteness of Equidistant Affine Subspaces

[2608.14837] Finiteness of Equidistant Affine Subspaces Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Mathematics > Metric Geometry arXiv:2608.14837 (math) [Submitted on 14 Aug 2026] Title: Finiteness of Equidistant Affine Subspaces Authors: Jia Li View a PDF of the paper titled Finiteness of Equidistant Affine Subspaces, by Jia Li View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Let \(0\leqslant k<n\), and let \(\mathcal N(k,n)\) denote the supremum of the cardinalities of finite families of affine \(k\)-planes in \(\R^n\) whose pairwise Euclidean separation distances are all equal to one. For \(k=1\), the finiteness of \(\mathcal N(1,n)\) was recently established by Solymosi and Zahl. We extend this result to affine subspaces of arbitrary dimension and prove the fully explicit bound \[ \mathcal N(k,n) \leqslant 2^{\,2^{\,10(k+1)(n-k)}}. \] The main difficulty in higher dimensions is that the rational distance formula degenerates along several possible rank strata of \(\dim(U+V)\), rather than only along the parallel locus. For each fixed rank \(r\), we replace the choice of a nonvanishing Gram minor by a global sum-of-squares expression involving all minors. This produces a polynomial relation \(H_r(x,y)=0\) which encodes both the unit-distance equation and an upper-rank condition, while also vanishing on the diagonal. We propagate this relation by means of the restricted Zariski closure and decompose the resulting algebraic set into an explicitly bounded number of connected Nash submanifolds. An analytic diagonal approximation argument shows that, within each Nash piece, the maximal possible value of \(\dim(U_x+U_y)\) must decrease. Iterating this rank descent over all possible ranks and combining the finitely many standard affine Grassmann charts yields the stated double-exponential upper bound. Comments: 22pages,Comments welcome! Subjects: Metric Geometry (math.MG) MSC classes: Primary 52C10, Secondary 14P10, 14M15, 05D10 Cite as: arXiv:2608.14837 [math.MG] (or arXiv:2608.14837v1 [math.MG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.14837 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Jia Li [ view email ] [v1] Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:21:59 UTC (16 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Finiteness of Equidistant Affine Subspaces, by Jia Li View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: math.MG < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: math References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from

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