Colloquium / Seminars
Topic:Tight Bound on Joints Problem and Partial Shadow Problem
Speaker:Dr. Ting-Wei Chao
Date time:June 14, 2024(Fri) 11:00 - 12:00
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Abstract
Given a set of lines in R^d, a joint is a point contained in d linearly independent lines. Guth and Katz showed that N lines can determine at most O(N^{3/2}) joints in R^3 via the polynomial method.
Yu and I proved a tight bound on this problem, which also solves a conjecture proposed by Bollob\'as and Eccles on the partial shadow problem. It is surprising to us that the only known proof to this purely extremal graph theoretic problem uses incidence geometry and the polynomial method.Download:Talk_1130614.pdf
