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We study a wide spectrum of incidence problems involving points and curves or points and surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. The current (and in fact the only viable) approach to such problems, pioneered by Guth and Katz [2010,2015], requires a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Micha Sharir , Noam Solomon

art, Iosevich, Koh and Rudnev (2007) show, using Fourier analysis method, that the finite Erd\"os-Falconer distance conjecture holds for subsets of the unit sphere in $\mathbbm{F}_q^d$. In this note, we give a graph theoretic proof of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-09 Le Anh Vinh

We prove an incidence theorem for points and planes in the projective space $\mathbb P^3$ over any field $\mathbb F$, whose characteristic $p\neq 2.$ An incidence is viewed as an intersection along a line of a pair of two-planes from two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-07 Misha Rudnev

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

We study the probability for a random line to intersect a given plane curve, defined over a finite field, in a given number of points defined over the same field. In particular, we focus on the limits of these probabilities under successive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Mehdi Makhul , Josef Schicho , Matteo Gallet

Given a set of points $P$ and a set of regions $\mathcal{O}$, an incidence is a pair $(p,o ) \in P \times \mathcal{O}$ such that $p \in o$. We obtain a number of new results on a classical question in combinatorial geometry: What is the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Timothy M. Chan , Sariel Har-Peled

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 use elementary methods to prove an incidence theorem for points and spheres in $\mathbb{F}_q^n$. As an application, we show that any point set of $P\subset \mathbb{F}_q^2$ with $|P|\geq 5q$ determines a positive proportion of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Javier Cilleruelo , Alex Iosevich , Ben Lund , Oliver Roche-Newton , Misha Rudnev

We establish a sharp point-sphere incidence bound in finite fields for point sets exhibiting controlled additive structure. Working in the framework of \((4,s)\)-Salem sets, which quantify pseudorandomness via fourth-order additive energy,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Steven Senger , Dung The Tran

In this paper we establish an improved bound for the number of incidences between a set $P$ of $m$ points and a set $H$ of $n$ planes in $\mathbb R^3$, provided that the points lie on a two-dimensional nonlinear irreducible algebraic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Micha Sharir , Noam Solomon

We consider the problem of bounding the number of exceptional projections (projections which are smaller than typical) of a subset of a vector space over a finite field onto subspaces. We establish bounds that depend on $L^p$ estimates for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Jonathan M. Fraser , Firdavs Rakhmonov

Consider the integer points lying on the sphere of fixed radius projected onto the unit sphere. Duke showed that, on congruence conditions for the radius squared, these points equidistribute. To further this study of equidistribution, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Christopher Lutsko

The study of counting point-hyperplane incidences in the $d$-dimensional space was initiated in the 1990's by Chazelle and became one of the central problems in discrete geometry. It has interesting connections to many other topics, such as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Aleksa Milojević , István Tomon , Benny Sudakov

The manuscript provides formulas for the volume of a body defined by the intersection of a solid cone and a solid sphere as a function of the sphere radius, of the distance between cone apex and sphere center, and of the cone aperture…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Richard J. Mathar

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 estimate the frequency of polynomial iterations which falls in a given multiplicative subgroup of a finite field of $p$ elements. We also give a lower bound on the size of the subgroup which is multiplicatively generated by the first $N$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-12 László Mérai , Igor E. Shparlinski

In this survey, we discuss volumetric and combinatorial results concerning (mostly finite) intersections or unions of balls (mostly of equal radii) in the $d$-dimensional real vector space, mostly equipped with the Euclidean norm. Our first…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Károly Bezdek , Zsolt Lángi , Márton Naszódi

This paper focuses on incidences over finite fields, extending to higher degrees a result by Vinh \cite{VINH20111177} on the number of point-line incidences in the plane $\mathbb{F}^2$, where $\mathbb{F}$ is a finite field. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Itzhak Tamo

In this paper we investigate the Erd\"os/Falconer distance conjecture for a natural class of sets statistically, though not necessarily arithmetically, similar to a lattice. We prove a good upper bound for spherical means that have been…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alex Iosevich , Misha Rudnev

We study incidence problems involving points and curves in $R^3$. The current (and in fact only viable) approach to such problems, pioneered by Guth and Katz, requires a variety of tools from algebraic geometry, most notably (i) the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Micha Sharir , Noam Solomon