On the Sylvester-Gallai theorem for conics

DOI10.4171/RSMUP/136-13zbMATH Open1408.52036arXiv1411.2648OpenAlexW1640777235MaRDI QIDQ509930FDOQ509930

Authors: Adam Czapliński, Łucja Farnik, Janusz Gwoździewicz, Magdalena Lampa-Baczyńska, Grzegorz Malara, Marcin Dumnicki, Tomasz Szemberg, Justyna Szpond, Halszka Tutaj-Gasińska 

Publication date: 15 February 2017

Published in: Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the present note we give a new proof of a result due to Wiseman and Wilson which establishes an analogue of the Sylvester-Gallai theorem valid for curves of degree two. The main ingredients of the proof come from algebraic geometry. Specifically, we use Cremona transformation of the projective plane and Hirzebruch inequality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2648

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zbMATH Keywords

interpolation problemCremona transformationarrangements of subvarietiescombinatorial arrangementsHirzebruch inequalitySylvester-Gallai problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other designs, configurations (05B30) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Planar arrangements of lines and pseudolines (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C30)

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