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Structural Szemer\'edi-Trotter for Lattices and their Generalizations

Combinatorics 2023-10-03 v1

Abstract

We completely characterize point--line configurations with Θ(n4/3)\Theta(n^{4/3}) incidences when the point set is a section of the integer lattice. This can be seen as the main special case of the structural Szemer\'edi-Trotter problem. We also derive a partial characterization for several generalizations: (i) We rule out the concurrent lines case when the point set is a Cartesian product of an arithmetic progression and an arbitrary set. (ii) We study the case of a Cartesian product where one or both sets are generalized arithmetic progression. Our proofs rely on deriving properties of multiplicative energies.

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@article{arxiv.2310.00191,
  title  = {Structural Szemer\'edi-Trotter for Lattices and their Generalizations},
  author = {Shival Dasu and Adam Sheffer and Junxuan Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.00191},
  year   = {2023}
}