陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「An incidence theorem in higher dimensions」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Jozsef Solymosi and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “ An incidence theorem in higher dimensions “, submitted to Discrete and Computational Geometry . In this paper we use the polynomial Ham Sandwich method of Guth and Katz (as discussed previously on this blog ) to establish higher-dimensional versions of the Szemerédi-Trotter theorem , albeit at the cost of an epsilon loss in exponents.

Recall that the Szemerédi-Trotter theorem asserts that given any finite set of points and lines in the plane , the number of incidences has the upper bound

已知结果和反例

Apart from the constant factor, this bound is sharp. As discussed in this previous blog post , this theorem can be proven by the polynomial method, and the strategy can be rapidly summarised as follows. Select a parameter . By the polynomial Ham Sandwich theorem, one can divide into cell interiors, each with points, and incident to lines on the average, plus a boundary set which is an algebraic curve of degree . To handle the contribution of each cell interior, one uses a mor

As a general rule, the contribution of the cell interiors becomes easier to handle as increases, while the contribution of the cell boundaries become easier as decreases . As such, the optimal value of is often an intermediate one (in the case of Szemerédi-Trotter, the choice is typical). Among other things, this requires some control of moderately high degree algebraic sets, though in this planar case , one only needs to control algebraic curves in the plane, which are very

证明或构造的主线

In higher dimensions, though, the complexity of the algebraic geometry required to control medium degree algebraic sets increases sharply; compare for instance the algebraic geometry of ruled surfaces appearing in the three-dimensional work of Guth and Katz as discussed here , compared with the algebraic geometry of curves in the two-dimensional Szemerédi-Trotter theorem discussed here .

However, Jozsef and I discovered that it is also possible to use the polynomial method with a non-optimised value of , and in particular with a bounded value of , which makes the algebraic geometry treatment of the boundary significantly easier. The drawback to this is that the cell interiors can no longer be adequately controlled by trivial incidence estimates. However, if instead one controls the cell interiors by an induction hypothesis , then it turns out that in many cas

阅读时建议盯住的点

for the cell interiors, and so provided that one can also control incidences on the (low degree) cell boundary, we see that we have closed the induction (up to changes in the implied constants in the notation).

Unfortunately, as is well known, the fact that the implied constants in the notation degrade when we do this prevents this induction argument from being rigorous. However, it turns out this method does work nicely to give the weaker incidence bound

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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