A new upper bound for the Heilbronn triangle problem

Authors Alex Cohen, Cosmin Pohoata, D. D. Zakharov

Publication date 29 May 2023

Abstract: For sufficiently large

n

, we show that in every configuration of

n

points chosen inside the unit square there exists a triangle of area less than

n^{- 8 / 7 - 1 / 2000}

. This improves upon a result of Koml'os, Pintz and Szemer'edi from 1982. Our approach establishes new connections between the Heilbronn triangle problem and various themes in incidence geometry and projection theory which are closely related to the discretized sum-product phenomenon.

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