Point-curve incidences in the complex plane

DOI10.1007/S00493-016-3441-7MaRDI QIDQ722326zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Sheffer, Endre Szabó, J. Zahl

Publication date 23 July 2018

Published in Combinatorica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07003, https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180530-132306671

zbMATH Keywords

complex algebraic curvedegree of freedomincidence theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10)

Abstract: We prove an incidence theorem for points and curves in the complex plane. Given a set of $m$ points in ${mathbbR}^2$ and a set of $n$ curves with $k$ degrees of freedom, Pach and Sharir proved that the number of point-curve incidences is $$. We establish the slightly weaker bound $$ on the number of incidences between $m$ points and $n$ (complex) algebraic curves in ${mathbbC}^2$ with $k$ degrees of freedom. We combine tools from algebraic geometry and differential geometry to prove a key technical lemma that controls the number of complex curves that can be contained inside a real hypersurface. This lemma may be of independent interest to other researchers proving incidence theorems over $mathbbC$.

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