A Sylvester-Gallai theorem for cubic curves

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2022.103509zbMATH Open1491.14047arXiv2010.01513OpenAlexW4211130552WikidataQ113875490 ScholiaQ113875490MaRDI QIDQ2136190FDOQ2136190

Frank de Zeeuw, Alex Cohen

Publication date: 10 May 2022

Published in: European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a variant of the Sylvester-Gallai theorem for cubics (algebraic curves of degree three): If a finite set of sufficiently many points in $mathbb{R}^2$ is not contained in a cubic, then there is a cubic that contains exactly nine of the points. This resolves the first unknown case of a conjecture of Wiseman and Wilson from 1988, who proved a variant of Sylvester-Gallai for conics and conjectured that similar statements hold for curves of any degree.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01513

zbMATH Keywords

incidenceconicgeneralizations of the Sylvester-Gallai theoremparameter space of cubic curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other designs, configurations (05B30) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

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• Algebraic curves, rich points, and doubly-ruled surfaces
• Uniqueness of Steiner laws on cubic curves

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