On rich points and incidences with restricted sets of lines in 3-space

DOI10.20382/JOCG.V13I2A4zbMATH Open1502.52021arXiv2012.11913MaRDI QIDQ5044451FDOQ5044451

Authors: Noam Solomon, Micha Sharir 

Publication date: 31 October 2022

Abstract: Let $L$ be a set of $n$ lines in $R^3$ that is contained, when represented as points in the four-dimensional Pl"ucker space of lines in $R^3$, in an irreducible variety $T$ of constant degree which is emph{non-degenerate} with respect to $L$ (see below). We show: medskip

oindent{�f (1)} If $T$ is two-dimensional, the number of $r$-rich points (points incident to at least $r$ lines of $L$) is $O(n^{4/3+epsilon}/r^2)$, for $rge3$ and for any $epsilon>0$, and, if at most $n^{1/3}$ lines of $L$ lie on any common regulus, there are at most $O(n^{4/3+epsilon})$ $2$-rich points. For $r$ larger than some sufficiently large constant, the number of $r$-rich points is also $O(n/r)$. As an application, we deduce (with an $epsilon$-loss in the exponent) the bound obtained by Pach and de Zeeuw (2107) on the number of distinct distances determined by $n$ points on an irreducible algebraic curve of constant degree in the plane that is not a line nor a circle. medskip oindent{�f (2)} If $T$ is two-dimensional, the number of incidences between $L$ and a set of $m$ points in $R^3$ is $O(m+n)$. medskip

oindent{�f (3)} If $T$ is three-dimensional and nonlinear, the number of incidences between $L$ and a set of $m$ points in $R^3$ is $Oleft(m^{3/5}{n}^{3/5}+(m^{11/15}{n}^{2/5}+m^{1/3}{n}^{2/3})s^{1/3}+m+night)$, provided that no plane contains more than $s$ of the points. When $s=O(min{n}^{3/5}/m^{2/5},m^{1/2})$, the bound becomes $O(m^{3/5}{n}^{3/5}+m+n)$. As an application, we prove that the number of incidences between $m$ points and $n$ lines in $R^4$ contained in a quadratic hypersurface (which does not contain a hyperplane) is $O(m^{3/5}{n}^{3/5}+m+n)$. The proofs use, in addition to various tools from algebraic geometry, recent bounds on the number of incidences between points and algebraic curves in the plane.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11913

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10) Algebraic functions and function fields in algebraic geometry (14H05) Combinatorial complexity of geometric structures (52C45)

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• Point-curve incidences in the complex plane
• On the number of rich lines in truly high dimensional sets
• Distinct distance estimates and low degree polynomial partitioning

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