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Erdős problem 214

Let SR2S\subset \mathbb{R}^2 be such that no two points in SS are distance 11 apart. Must the complement of SS contain four points which form a unit square?

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The answer is yes, proved by Juhász [Ju79], who proved more generally that the complement of SS must contain a congruent copy of any set of four points.

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