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Counting multijoints

Combinatorics 2014-01-27 v1 Algebraic Geometry Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

Let L1\mathfrak{L}_1, L2\mathfrak{L}_2, L3\mathfrak{L}_3 be finite collections of L1L_1, L2L_2, L3L_3, respectively, lines in R3\mathbb{R}^3, and J(L1,L2,L3)J(\mathfrak{L}_1, \mathfrak{L}_2,\mathfrak{L}_3) the set of multijoints formed by them, i.e. the set of points xR3x \in \mathbb{R}^3, each of which lies in at least one line liLil_i \in \mathfrak{L}_i, for all i=1,2,3i=1,2,3, such that the directions of l1l_1, l2l_2 and l3l_3 span R3\mathbb{R}^3. We prove here that J(L1,L2,L3)(L1L2L3)1/2|J(\mathfrak{L}_1, \mathfrak{L}_2,\mathfrak{L}_3)|\lesssim (L_1L_2L_3)^{1/2}, and we extend our results to multijoints formed by real algebraic curves in R3\mathbb{R}^3 of uniformly bounded degree, as well as by curves in R3\mathbb{R}^3 parametrised by real univariate polynomials of uniformly bounded degree. The multijoints problem is a variant of the joints problem, as well as a discrete analogue of the endpoint multilinear Kakeya problem.

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@article{arxiv.1401.6392,
  title  = {Counting multijoints},
  author = {Marina Iliopoulou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6392},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

25 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1312.5436

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