Incidences between points and lines in \({\mathbb {R}}^4\) (Q527445)

The authors show the following result. Let \(L\) be a set of \(n\) distinct lines and \(P\) be a set of \(m\) distinct points in Euclidean 4-space such that no 2-plane contains more than \(s\) lines of \(L\) and no hyperplane or quadric contains more than \(q\) lines of \(L\). Then the number of incidences between the points of \(P\) and the lines of \(L\), denoted by \(I(P,L)\), satisfies \[ I(P,L) \leq (2^{c \sqrt{\log(m)}}) (m^{2/5} n^{4/5} +m) + A(m^{1/2}n^{1/2} q^{1/4} + m^{2/3} n^{1/3} s^{1/3} +n) \] for suitable absolute constants \(A\) and \(c\). If \(m \leq n^{6/7}\) of \(m \geq n^{5/3}\) then the bound is improved to \[ I(P,L) \leq A(m^{2/5} n^{4/5} + m + m^{1/2}n^{1/2} q^{1/4} + m^{2/3} n^{1/3}s^{1/3} +n) . \]