On sets defining few ordinary planes
Abstract
Let be a set of points in real three-dimensional space, no three collinear and not all co-planar. We prove that if the number of planes incident with exactly three points of is less than for some then, for sufficiently large, all but at most points of are contained in the intersection of two quadrics. Furthermore, we prove that there is a constant such that if the number of planes incident with exactly three points of is less than then, for sufficiently large, is either a prism, an anti-prism, a prism with a point removed or an anti-prism with a point removed. As a corollary to the main result, we deduce the following theorem. Let be a set of points in the real plane. If the number of circles incident with exactly three points of is less than for some then, for sufficiently large, all but at most points of are contained in a curve of degree at most four.
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@article{arxiv.1606.02138,
title = {On sets defining few ordinary planes},
author = {Simeon Ball},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02138},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
I have made extensive changes, most important of which is to the exponent 1/6, which is replaced by 1/7