On a question of Erdős and Ulam

DOI10.1007/S00454-009-9179-XzbMATH Open1209.52009arXiv0806.3095OpenAlexW1590235295WikidataQ57534459 ScholiaQ57534459MaRDI QIDQ848677FDOQ848677

Authors: József Solymosi, Frank de Zeeuw 

Publication date: 4 March 2010

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Ulam asked in 1945 if there is an everywhere dense emph{rational set}, i.e. a point set in the plane with all its pairwise distances rational. ErdH os conjectured that if a set $S$ has a dense rational subset, then $S$ should be very special. The only known types of examples of sets with dense (or even just infinite) rational subsets are lines and circles. In this paper we prove ErdH os's conjecture for algebraic curves, by showing that no irreducible algebraic curve other than a line or a circle contains an infinite rational set.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3095

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zbMATH Keywords

rational pointsrational distancesErdős problems in discrete geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10)

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