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No-$(k+1)$-in-line problem for large constant $k$

Combinatorics 2025-10-21 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

How many points can be placed in an n×nn\times n grid so that every (affine) line contains at most kk points? We prove that for nk1037n \ge k \ge 10^{37} the maximum number of points is exactly knkn. Our proof builds on the recent work of Kov\'acs, Nagy, and Szab\'o (who proved an analogous result when kk is at least about nlogn\sqrt{n \log n}), incorporating ideas of Jain and Pham. Using the same approach, we also obtain new bounds for higher-dimensional extensions of this problem.

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@article{arxiv.2510.17743,
  title  = {No-$(k+1)$-in-line problem for large constant $k$},
  author = {Alexandr Grebennikov and Matthew Kwan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17743},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages

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