Structural results for planar sets with many similar subsets (Q2567400)

The authors study the structural properties of \(n\)-sets \(A\) which have \(cn^2\) similar copies of a \(k\)-element subset \(P\). They prove that, for \(n\) large enough, \(A\) must contain \(m\) points in a line forming an arithmetic progression, or \(m\times m\) lattices, when \(P\) is not cocyclic or collinear. For cocyclic or collinear sets \(P\), there are \(n\)-elements sets \(A\) with \(cn^2\) copies of \(P\) and without \(k\times k\) lattice subsets.