Abstract
We use elementary methods to prove an incidence theorem for points and spheres in Fnq. As an application, we show that any point set P⊂F2q with |P|≥5q
determines a positive proportion of all circles. The latter result is
an analogue of Beck’s Theorem for circles which is optimal up to
multiplicative constants.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 133-142 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Acta Arithmetica |
| Volume | 177 |
| Early online date | 22 Dec 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- incidences
- circles
- finite fields