Distinct distances in the complex plane

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8420MaRDI QIDQ5009321zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Sheffer, J. Zahl

Publication date 20 August 2021

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08886

zbMATH Keywords

complex distancedistinct distancesErdős problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Abstract: We prove that if $P$ is a set of $n$ points in $mathbb{C}^2$, then either the points in $P$ determine $Omega(n^{1-epsilon})$ complex distances, or $P$ is contained in a line with slope $pmi$. If the latter occurs then each pair of points in $P$ have complex distance 0.

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