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The largest possible length of a sum of n unit vectors in n-dimensional space, with some two orthogonal among any three, grows like n^(2/3).
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What the paper says, word for word
“Our results imply that the maximum possible Euclidean norm of a sum of $n$ unit vectors in $R^n$, so that among any three of them some two are orthogonal, is $\Theta(n^{2/3})$.”
From Alon (1994), DOI 10.37236/1192. Quote verified against the publisher's abstract on 19 Oct 2026.
Euclidean norm:
The ordinary geometric length of a vector, found by squaring its coordinates, adding them and taking the square root.
orthogonal:
Perpendicular, meaning the two vectors have a dot product of zero.
Θ(n^{2/3}):
The quantity grows at the same rate as n^(2/3), bounded above and below by constant multiples of it for large n.
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The paper
Explicit Ramsey graphs and orthonormal labelings
Noga Alon
The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics · published 1994 · DOI 10.37236/1192
The paper gives an explicit construction of triangle-free graphs with no independent set of size m and about m^(3/2) vertices, and pins down the maximum Lovász theta-function for graphs with no independent set of size 3.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 19 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The claim turns a result about graphs into one about geometry. Among n unit vectors where any three contain an orthogonal pair, the sum's length can be as large as order n^(2/3) but no larger, up to constant factors. It matters because it fixes the true growth rate of a quantity that earlier work had only bounded from above and below with a small gap.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 19 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as the publisher's record at Crossref publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
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What the authors did
The author gives an explicit mathematical construction of triangle-free Ramsey graphs and derives bounds on the Lovász theta-function from it. The abstract does not describe any data or experiments.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
There is an explicit construction of triangle-free graphs with no independent set of size m and Ω(m^(3/2)) vertices, improving earlier constructions.
The maximum Lovász theta-function of an n-vertex graph with no independent set of size 3 is Θ(n^(1/3)), slightly improving Kashin and Konyagin's lower bound of Ω(n^(1/3)/log n).
These results imply the maximum Euclidean norm of the sum of such n unit vectors in R^n is Θ(n^(2/3)).
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"Our results imply that the maximum possible Euclidean norm of a sum of $n$ unit vectors in $R^n$, so that among any three of them some two are orthogonal, is $\Theta(n^{2/3})$."
(Alon, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 1994)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The largest possible length of a sum of n unit vectors in n-dimensional space, with some two orthogonal among any three, grows like n^(2/3).
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Refuted if a rigorous argument establishes that the maximum Euclidean norm for such a set of vectors is either $o(n^{2/3})$ or $igl( ext{super‑polynomial}igr)$, i.e., an upper bound strictly smaller than any constant multiple of $n^{2/3}$ for all sufficiently large $n$, or a lower bound strictly larger than any constant multiple of $n^{2/3}$ for all sufficiently large $n$.
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