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We improve the well-known Szemer\'edi-Trotter incidence bound for proper 3--dimensional point sets (defined appropriately)

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-06 György Elekes

Kelly's theorem states that a set of $n$ points affinely spanning $\mathbb{C}^3$ must determine at least one ordinary complex line (a line passing through exactly two of the points). Our main theorem shows that such sets determine at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Abdul Basit , Zeev Dvir , Shubhangi Saraf , Charles Wolf

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 the number of incidences between $m$ distinct points and $n$ distinct lines in ${\mathbb R}^4$ is $O\left(2^{c\sqrt{\log m}} (m^{2/5}n^{4/5}+m) + m^{1/2}n^{1/2}q^{1/4} + m^{2/3}n^{1/3}s^{1/3} + n\right)$, for a suitable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Micha Sharir , Noam Solomon

This is an incomplete attempt to show that the upper bound of $\lesssim n^\frac{4}{3}$ on the number unit distances determined by a large finite set of $n$ points in the plane is not sharp. The methods also say something about sets of $n$…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Steven Senger

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 completely characterize point--line configurations with $\Theta(n^{4/3})$ 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…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Shival Dasu , Adam Sheffer , Junxuan Shen

In additive combinatorics, Erd\"{o}s-Szemer\'{e}di Conjecture is an important conjecture. It can be applied to many fields, such as number theory, harmonic analysis, incidence geometry, and so on. Additionally, its statement is quite easy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Sung-Yi Liao

We prove an analog of the Szemer\'edi-Trotter theorem in the plane for definable curves and points in any o-minimal structure over an arbitrary real closed field $\mathrm{R}$. One new ingredient in the proof is an extension of the well…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Saugata Basu , Orit E. Raz

We extend (and somewhat simplify) the algebraic proof technique of Guth and Katz \cite{GK}, to obtain several sharp bounds on the number of incidences between lines and points in three dimensions. Specifically, we show: (i) The maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-05-12 György Elekes , Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir

Let $q$ be a power of a prime and $\mathbb{F}_q$ the finite field consisting of $q$ elements. We prove explicit upper bounds on the number of incidences between lines and Cartesian products in $\mathbb{F}_q^2$. We also use our results on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Ali Mohammadi

We use spectral theory and algebraic geometry to establish a higher-degree analogue of a Szemer\'edi--Trotter-type theorem over finite fields, with an application to polynomial expansion.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Nuno Arala , Sam Chow

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

Begin with a set of four points in the real plane in general position. Add to this collection the intersection of all lines through pairs of these points. Iterate. Ismailescu and Radoi\v{c}i\'{c} (2003) showed that the limiting set is dense…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-11 Joshua Cooper , Mark Walters

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

Let $P = A\times A \subset \mathbb{F}_p \times \mathbb{F}_p$, $p$ a prime. Assume that $P= A\times A$ has $n$ elements, $n<p$. See $P$ as a set of points in the plane over $\mathbb{F}_p$. We show that the pairs of points in $P$ determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Harald Andres Helfgott , Misha Rudnev

We prove a new upper bound on the number of $r$-rich lines (lines with at least $r$ points) in a `truly' $d$-dimensional configuration of points $v_1,\ldots,v_n \in \mathbb{C}^d$. More formally, we show that, if the number of $r$-rich lines…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Zeev Dvir , Sivakanth Gopi

We study a lower bound for the constant of the Szemer\'edi-Trotter theorem. In particular, we show that a recent infinite family of point-line configurations satisfies $I({\mathcal P},{\mathcal L})\ge (c+o(1)) |{\mathcal P}|^{2/3}|{\mathcal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Martin Balko , Adam Sheffer , Ruiwen Tang

Let $P$ be a set of $m$ points and $L$ a set of $n$ lines in $\mathbb R^4$, such that the points of $P$ lie on an algebraic three-dimensional surface of degree $D$ that does not contain hyperplane or quadric components, and no 2-flat…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Micha Sharir , Noam Solomon

In this note, we show that extremal Szemer\'{e}di-Trotter configurations are rigid in the following sense: If $P,L$ are sets of points and lines determining at least $C|P|^{2/3}|L|^{2/3}$ incidences, then there exists a collection $P'$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Gabriel Currier , Jozsef Solymosi , Hung-Hsun Hans Yu