Abstract
Let F n be a free group of rank n, with free generating set X. A subset D of F n is a Distinct Difference Configuration if the differences g-1 h are distinct, where g and h range over all (ordered) pairs of distinct elements of D. The subset D has diameter at most d if these differences all have word length at most d. When n is fixed and d is large, the paper shows that the largest distinct difference configuration in F n of diameter at most d has size approximately (2n-1) d/3 .