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「Lines in the Euclidean group SE(2)」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

In a previous blog post , I discussed the recent result of Guth and Katz obtaining a near-optimal bound on the Erdos distance problem . One of the tools used in the proof (building upon the earlier work of Elekes and Sharir ) was the observation that the incidence geometry of the Euclidean group of rigid motions of the plane was almost identical to that of lines in the Euclidean space :

Proposition 1 One can identify a (Zariski-)dense portion of with , in such a way that for any two points in the plane , the set of rigid motions mapping to forms a line in .

已知结果和反例

Proof: A rigid motion is either a translation or a rotation, with the latter forming a Zariski-dense subset of . Identify a rotation in by an angle with around a point with the element in . (Note that such rotations also form a Zariski-dense subset of .) Elementary trigonometry then reveals that if maps to , then lies on the perpendicular bisector of , and depends in a linear fashion on (for fixed ). The claim follows.

As seen from the proof, this proposition is an easy (though ad hoc ) application of elementary trigonometry, but it was still puzzling to me why such a simple parameterisation of the incidence structure of was possible. Certainly it was clear from general algebraic geometry considerations that some bounded-degree algebraic description was available, but why would the be expressible as lines and not as, say, quadratic or cubic curves?

证明或构造的主线

在这类讨论里 I would like to record some observations arising from discussions with Jordan Ellenberg, Jozsef Solymosi, and Josh Zahl which give a more conceptual (but less elementary) derivation of the above proposition that avoids the use of ad hoc coordinate transformations such as . The starting point is to view the Euclidean plane as the scaling limit of the sphere (a fact which is familiar to all of us through the geometry of the Earth), which makes the Euclidean group a scali

Details of the correspondence are provided below the fold. One by-product of this analysis, incidentally, is the observation that the Guth-Katz bound for the Erdos distance problem in the plane , immediately extends with almost no modification to the sphere as well (i.e. any points in determine distances), as well as to the hyperbolic plane .

阅读时建议盯住的点

— 1. Euclidean geometry as the scaling limit of spherical geometry —

Euclidean geometry and spherical geometry are examples of Kleinian geometries : the geometry of a space with a group of symmetries acting transitively on it. In the case of Euclidean plane geometry, the space is the plane and the symmetry group is the special Euclidean group ; in the case of spherical geometry, the space is the unit sphere and the symmetry group is the special orthogonal group . According to the Kleinian way of thinking (as formalised by the Erlangen program

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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