Joints tightened

DOI10.1353/AJM.2023.0014zbMATH Open1523.52027arXiv1911.08605OpenAlexW4362719864MaRDI QIDQ6159562FDOQ6159562

Authors: Yufei Zhao 

Publication date: 8 May 2023

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In $d$-dimensional space (over any field), given a set of lines, a joint is a point passed through by $d$ lines not all lying in some hyperplane. The joints problem asks to determine the maximum number of joints formed by $L$ lines, and it was one of the successes of the Guth--Katz polynomial method. We prove a new upper bound on the number of joints that matches, up to a $1+o(1)$ factor, the best known construction: place $k$ generic hyperplanes, and use their $(d-1)$-wise intersections to form $$ lines and their $d$-wise intersections to form $$ joints. Guth conjectured that this construction is optimal. Our technique builds on the work on Ruixiang Zhang proving the multijoints conjecture via an extension of the polynomial method. We set up a variational problem to control the high order of vanishing of a polynomial at each joint.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08605

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Planar arrangements of lines and pseudolines (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C30)

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