The density of planar sets avoiding unit distances

Abstract

By improving upon previous estimates on a problem posed by L. Moser, we prove a conjecture of Erdos that the density of any measurable planar set avoiding unit distances cannot exceed 1/4. Our argument implies the upper bound of 0.2470.

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