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On sets of points with few odd secants

Combinatorics 2020-02-19 v2

Abstract

We prove that, for qq odd, a set of q+2q+2 points in the projective plane over the field with qq elements has at least 2qc2q-c odd secants, where cc is a constant and an odd secant is a line incident with an odd number of points of the set.

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@article{arxiv.1711.10876,
  title  = {On sets of points with few odd secants},
  author = {Simeon Ball and Bence Csajbók},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10876},
  year   = {2020}
}

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