Erdős's weak Dirac conjecture

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Let P⊂PC2\mathcal{P}\subset \mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{C}} be a finite set of mutually distinct nn points, and let L(P)\mathcal{L}(\mathcal{P}) be the set of lines determined by pairs of points of P\mathcal{P}. Erdős's weak Dirac conjecture. Every set P\mathcal{P} of nn non-collinear points in the plane (presumably over the real numbers) contains a point which is incident to at least

⌈nc⌉\left\lceil \frac{n}{c} \right\rceil

lines from L(P)\mathcal{L}(\mathcal{P}) for a certain constant c>0c>0. This is a classical incidence-geometric conjecture asserting the existence of a point incident to linearly many determined lines; the source does not provide evidence of a resolution.

References

Primary source

Piotr Pokora, “Hirzebruch-type inequalities viewed as tools in combinatorics”, arXiv:1808.09167 (2020).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1701.06266.

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