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We bound the number of incidences between points and spheres in finite vector spaces by bounding the sum of the number of points in the pairwise intersections of the spheres. We obtain new incidence bounds that are interesting when the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Doowon Koh , Ben Lund , Chuandong Xu , Semin Yoo

We provide a new lower bound on the number of $(\leq k)$-edges of a set of $n$ points in the plane in general position. We show that for $0 \leq k \leq\lfloor\frac{n-2}{2}\rfloor$ the number of $(\leq k)$-edges is at least $$ E_k(S) \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Oswin Aichholzer , Jesús García , David Orden , Pedro Ramos

In this paper we introduce a unified approach to deal with incidence problems between points and varieties over finite fields. More precisely, we prove that the number of incidences $I(\mathcal{P}, \mathcal{V})$ between a set $\mathcal{P}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Nguyen Duy Phuong , Thang Pham , Nguyen Minh Sang , Claudiu Valculescu , Le Anh Vinh

We prove a new upper bound for the number of incidences between points and lines in a plane over an arbitrary field $\mathbb{F}$, a problem first considered by Bourgain, Katz and Tao. Specifically, we show that $m$ points and $n$ lines in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-16 Sophie Stevens , Frank de Zeeuw

We present a slightly different formulation of Zak's theorem on tangencies as well as some applications. In particular, we obtain a better bound on the dimension of the dual variety of a manifold and we classify extremal and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-02 José Carlos Sierra

We prove a point-wise and average bound for the number of incidences between points and hyper-planes in vector spaces over finite fields. While our estimates are, in general, sharp, we observe an improvement for product sets and sets…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-07-31 Derrick Hart , Alex Iosevich , Doowon Koh , Misha Rudnev

Erd\H{o}s-Beck theorem states that $n$ points in the plane with at most $n-x$ points collinear define at least $c xn$ lines for some positive constant $c$. In this paper, we will present two ways to extend this result to higher dimensions.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Thao Do

We show that $m$ points and $n$ smooth algebraic surfaces of bounded degree in $\mathbb{R}^3$ satisfying suitable nondegeneracy conditions can have at most $O(m^{\frac{2k}{3k-1}}n^{\frac{3k-3}{3k-1}}+m+n)$ incidences, provided that any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Joshua Zahl

We prove Pach-Sharir type incidence theorems for a class of curves in R^n and surfaces in R^3, which we call pseudoflats. In particular, our results apply to a wide class of generic irreducible real algebraic sets of bounded degree.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Izabella Laba , Jozsef Solymosi

It is shown that $n$ points and $e$ lines in the complex Euclidean plane ${\mathbb C}^2$ determine $O(n^{2/3}e^{2/3}+n+e)$ point-line incidences. This bound is the best possible, and it generalizes the celebrated theorem by Szemer\'edi and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Csaba D. Toth

Let $\mathbb{F}$ be a field, let $P \subseteq \mathbb{F}^d$ be a finite set of points, and let $\alpha,\beta \in \mathbb{F} \setminus \{0\}$. We study the quantity \[|\Pi_{\alpha, \beta}| = \{(p,q,r) \in P \times P \times P \mid p \cdot q =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Ben Lund

We consider a variation of the classical Erd\H{o}s-Szekeres problems on the existence and number of convex $k$-gons and $k$-holes (empty $k$-gons) in a set of $n$ points in the plane. Allowing the $k$-gons to be non-convex, we show bounds…

Incidence theorems concern configurations of points, lines, and, more generally, higher-dimensional subspaces in projective space. Broadly speaking, such theorems fall into two classes: those that hold over an arbitrary division ring, such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Anton Izosimov

We prove a new, tight upper bound on the number of incidences between points and hyperplanes in Euclidean d-space. Given n points, of which k are colored red, there are O_d(m^{2/3}k^{2/3}n^{(d-2)/3} + kn^{d-2} + m) incidences between the k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-10 Ben D. Lund , George B. Purdy , Justin W. Smith

This treats the base-point-freeness of the adjoint bundles on normal surfaces with a boundary. This is an extension of the non-relative version of the theorem of Ein-Lazarsfeld-Masek and the theorem of Kawachi-Masek.

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Takeshi Kawachi

We prove several bounds on the number of incidences between two sets of multivariate polynomials of bounded degree over finite fields. From these results, we deduce bounds on incidences between points and multivariate polynomials, extending…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Chong Shangguan , Yulin Yang , Tao Zhang

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 extend the famous Erd\H{o}s-Szekeres theorem to $k$-flats in ${\mathbb{R}^d}$

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Imre Bárány , Gil Kalai , Attila Pór

Given a finite set of points $S\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, a $k$-set of $S$ is a subset $A \subset S$ of size $k$ which can be strictly separated from $S \setminus A $ by a hyperplane. Similarly, a $k$-facet of a point set $S$ in general position…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Brett Leroux , Luis Rademacher

In this note we prove some results in flat and differential $K$-theory. The first one is a proof of the compatibility of the differential topological index and the flat topological index by a direct computation. The second one is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-17 Man-Ho Ho