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The problem of 2-coloring uniform hypergraphs has been extensively studied over the last few decades. An n-uniform hypergraph is not 2-colorable if its vertices can't be colored with two colors, Red and Blue, such that every hyperedge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Jithin Mathews , Manas Kumar Panda , Saswata Shannigrahi

Given $m$ points and $n$ hyperplanes in $\mathbb{R}^d$, if there are many incidences, we expect to find a big cluster $K_{r,s}$ in their incidence graph. Apfelbaum and Sharir found lower and upper bounds for the largest size of $rs$, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Thao T. Do

It is proved that for $k\geq 4$, if the points of $k$-dimensional Euclidean space are coloured in red and blue, then there are either two red points distance one apart or $k+3$ blue collinear points with distance one between any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Andrii Arman , Sergei Tsaturian

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ 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 $S$ is less than $Kn^2$ for some $K=o(n^{\frac{1}{7}})$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Simeon Ball

We consider the coloring of certain distance graphs on the Euclidean plane. Namely, we ask for the minimal number of colors needed to color all points of the plane in such a way that pairs of points at distance in the interval $[1,b]$ get…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Joanna Chybowska-Sokół , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Krzysztof Węsek

New bounds on the number of similar or directly similar copies of a pattern within a finite subset of the line or the plane are proved. The number of equilateral triangles whose vertices all lie within an $n$-point subset of the plane is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Bernardo Abrego , Silvia Fernandez-Merchant , Daniel J. Katz , Levon Kolesnikov

In this paper, we prove the first incidence bound for points and conics over prime fields. As applications, we prove new results on expansion of bivariate polynomial images and on certain variations of distinct distances problems. These…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Ali Mohammadi , Thang Pham , Audie Warren

We present a technique for deriving lower bounds for incidences with hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb R}^d$ with $d\ge 4$. These bounds apply to a large variety of hypersurfaces, such as hyperplanes, hyperspheres, paraboloids, and hypersurfaces…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Adam Sheffer

We study the maximum number of straight-line segments connecting $n$ points in convex position in the plane, so that each segment intersects at most $k$ others. This question can also be framed as the maximum number of edges of an outer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Maximilian Pfister

This is a treatise on finite point configurations spanning a fixed volume to be found in a single color-class of an arbitrary finite (measurable) coloring of the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, or in a single large measurable subset…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Vjekoslav Kovač

We establish an improved upper bound for the number of incidences between m points and n circles in three dimensions. The previous best known bound, originally established for the planar case and later extended to any dimension $\ge 2$, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Micha Sharir , Adam Sheffer , Joshua Zahl

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane, and let $\mathcal C$ be a collection of $n$ simple $k$-intersecting curves, meaning that every two distinct curves of $\mathcal C$ meet in at most $k$ points. A classical theorem of Pach and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Andrew Suk , Su Zhou

We study the following local-to-global phenomenon: Let $B$ and $R$ be two finite sets of (blue and red) points in the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^2$. Suppose that in each "neighborhood" of a red point, the number of blue points is at least…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Márton Naszódi , Leonardo Martínez-Sandoval , Shakhar Smorodinsky

It is proved that if the points of the three-dimensional Euclidean space are coloured in red and blue, then there exist either two red points unit distance apart, or six collinear blue points with distance one between any two consecutive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Andrii Arman , Sergei Tsaturian

Assume that $R_1,R_2,\dots,R_t$ are disjoint parallel lines in the plane. A $t$-interval (or $t$-track interval) is a set that can be written as the union of $t$ closed intervals, each on a different line. It is known that pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-09 János Barát , András Gyárfás , Gábor N. Sárközy

We present a polynomial partitioning theorem for finite sets of points in the real locus of an irreducible complex algebraic variety of codimension at most two. This result generalizes the polynomial partitioning theorem on the Euclidean…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Saugata Basu , Martin Sombra

We give two extensions of the recent theorem of the first author that the odd distance graph has unbounded chromatic number. The first is that for any non-constant polynomial $f$ with integer coefficients and positive leading coefficient,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-24 James Davies , Rose McCarty , Michał Pilipczuk

Given a set of red and blue points in the plane, a bichromatic line is a line containing at least one red and one blue point. We prove the following conjecture of Kleitman and Pinchasi (unpublished, 2003). Let P be a set of n red, and n or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Michael S. Payne

We consider colored variants of a class of geometric-combinatorial questions on $k$-gons and empty $k$-gons that have been started around 1935 by Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres. In our setting we have $n$ points in general position in the plane,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Oswin Aichholzer , Helena Bergold , Simon D. Fink , Maarten Löffler , Patrick Schnider , Josef Tkadlec

We prove three theorems giving extremal bounds on the incidence structures determined by subsets of the points and blocks of a balanced incomplete block design (BIBD). These results generalize and strengthen known bounds on the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Ben Lund , Shubhangi Saraf