A Sylvester-Gallai theorem for cubic curves
Combinatorics
2022-01-04 v2
Abstract
We prove a variant of the Sylvester-Gallai theorem for cubics (algebraic curves of degree three): If a finite set of sufficiently many points in is not contained in a cubic, then there is a cubic that contains exactly nine of the points. This resolves the first unknown case of a conjecture of Wiseman and Wilson from 1988, who proved a variant of Sylvester-Gallai for conics and conjectured that similar statements hold for curves of any degree.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2010.01513,
title = {A Sylvester-Gallai theorem for cubic curves},
author = {Alex Cohen and Frank de Zeeuw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01513},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
10 pages, accepted to European Journal of Combinatorics