EP-668 · Complete finite congruence classification

Two Congruence Classes of Extremal Twenty-Point Sets

Manuscript 17 October 2026 · Online 17 October 2026

math.MGmath.COUnrefereed preprint

Abstract

Alexeev, Mixon and Parshall proved that twenty points in the plane have at most 54 unit-distance pairs and that every maximizing set has the same abstract unit-distance graph. We determine its Euclidean realization classes: there are exactly two, even when reflections are allowed. Both are explicit Minkowski sums of the unit diamond and a five-point triangular fan. Cartesian-product squares force every injective realization to have this form, and one additional edge leaves two relative rotations. A fourth distance moment separates the resulting sets. The proof uses the established abstract-graph enumeration and otherwise consists of elementary geometry and exact algebra. This is a finite congruence classification; it does not resolve the asymptotic question in Erdős Problem 668.

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Affiliation
Mercury Software GmbH
Result
Complete finite congruence classification
Categories
math.MG · math.CO
Manuscript
17 October 2026
Online release
17 October 2026
Version
1.0
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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Citation

Alper Ferudun, “Two Congruence Classes of Extremal Twenty-Point Sets,” EulerSolve Research Papers, EP-668, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23440649.

BibTeX
@misc{ferudun2026twentypoints,
  author = {Ferudun, Alper},
  title = {Two Congruence Classes of Extremal Twenty-Point Sets},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {EulerSolve Research Papers},
  url = {https://eulersolve.org/papers/ep-668/},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23440649},
  note = {EP-668; unrefereed preprint}
}

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