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A well-known theorem of de Bruijn and Erd\H{o}s states that any set of $n$ non-collinear points in the plane determines at least $n$ lines. Chen and Chv\'{a}tal asked whether an analogous statement holds within the framework of finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Ida Kantor , Balazs Patkos

De Bruijn and Erd\H{o}s proved that every noncollinear set of n points in the plane determines at least n distinct lines. We suggest a possible generalization of this theorem in the framework of metric spaces and provide partial results on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-01 Xiaomin Chen , Vašek Chvátal

We give a complete description of Green's D relation for the multiplicative semigroup of all n-by-n tropical matrices. Our main tool is a new variant on the duality between the row and column space of a tropical matrix (studied by Cohen,…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Christopher Hollings , Mark Kambites

We study integral plane curves meeting at a single unibranch point and show that such curves must satisfy two equivalent conditions. A numeric condition: the local invariants of the curves at the contact point must be arithmetically…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Lucia Caporaso , Amos Turchet

In this paper, we consider weighted counts of tropical plane curves of particular combinatorial type through a certain number of generic points. We give a criterion, derived from tropical intersection theory on the secondary fan, for a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-18 Eric Katz

We show that the number of tropical curves of given genus and degree through some given general points in the plane does not depend on the position of the points. In the case when the degree of the curves contains only primitive integral…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-01 Andreas Gathmann , Hannah Markwig

In the last few years there has been a growing interest towards methods for statistical inference and learning based on computational geometry and, notably, tropical geometry, that is, the study of algebraic varieties over the min-plus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Davide Barbarossa , Paolo Pistone

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

The Sylvester-Gallai Theorem, stated as a problem by J. J. Sylvester in 1893, asserts that for any finite, noncollinear set of points on a plane, there exists a line passing through exactly two points of the set. First, it is shown that for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Mark Mandelkern

A special case of a combinatorial theorem of De Bruijn and Erdos asserts that every noncollinear set of n points in the plane determines at least n distinct lines. Chen and Chvatal suggested a possible generalization of this assertion in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Vasek Chvatal

The paper studies intrinsic geometry in the tropical plane. Tropical structure in the real affine $n$-space is determined by the integer tangent vectors. Tropical isomorphisms are affine transformations preserving the integer lattice of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Grigory Mikhalkin , Mikhail Shkolnikov

The Sylvester-Gallai theorem states that for a finite set of points in the plane, if every line determined by any two of these points also contains a third, then the set is necessarily made of collinear points. In this paper, we first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Imre Barany , Julia Q. Du , Dan Schwarz , Liping Yuan , Tudor Zamfirescu

The point-plane incidence theorem states that the number of incidences between $n$ points and $m\geq n$ planes in the projective three-space over a field $F$, is $$O\left(m\sqrt{n}+ m k\right),$$ where $k$ is the maximum number of collinear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Misha Rudnev

We study the tropicalization of intersections of plane curves, under the assumption that they have the same tropicalization. We show that the set of tropical divisors that arise in this manner is a pure dimensional balanced polyhedral…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Yoav Len , Matthew Satriano

In complex algebraic geometry, the problem of enumerating plane elliptic curves of given degree with fixed complex structure has been solved by R.Pandharipande using Gromov-Witten theory. In this article we treat the tropical analogue of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-17 Michael Kerber , Hannah Markwig

This work tackles the problem of characterizing and understanding the decision boundaries of neural networks with piecewise linear non-linearity activations. We use tropical geometry, a new development in the area of algebraic geometry, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Motasem Alfarra , Adel Bibi , Hasan Hammoud , Mohamed Gaafar , Bernard Ghanem

A classic theorem of Euclidean geometry asserts that any noncollinear set of $n$ points in the plane determines at least $n$ distinct lines. Chen and Chv\'atal conjectured that this holds for an arbitrary finite metric space, with a certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Pierre Aboulker , Xiaomin Chen , Guangda Huzhang , Rohan Kapadia , Cathryn Supko

This paper presents a unified mathematical framework for inference in graphical models, building on the observation that graphical models are algebraic varieties. From this geometric viewpoint, observations generated from a model are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Lior Pachter , Bernd Sturmfels

Given a rank 3 real arrangement $\mathcal A$ of $n$ lines in the projective plane, the Dirac-Motzkin conjecture (proved by Green and Tao in 2013) states that for $n$ sufficiently large, the number of simple intersection points of $\mathcal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Benjamin Anzis , Stefan Tohaneanu

We give an introduction to Tropical Geometry and prove some results in Tropical Intersection Theory. The first part of this paper is an introduction to tropical geometry aimed at researchers in Algebraic Geometry from the point of view of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Eric Katz