Model-theoretic distality and incidence combinatorics

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Channel: Institut Henri Poincaré · 2018 · Science & Technology

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By Artem Chernikov (UCLA)
Abstract: In this talk I will give an overview of some recent developments on the interplay of model theory, hypergraph regularity and incidence combinatorics. We will focus on the notion of a distal structure and its local variants, which provide an abstract setting for “characteristic 0” incidence combinatorics. In particular, I will present joint work with David Galvin and Sergei Starchenko on generalizing various incidence bounds (e.g. the Szemer´edi–Trotter theorem, strong Erd˝os–Hajnal property, etc.) from the semialgebraic setting to arbitrary distal structures (which includes o-minimal structures, p-adics, etc.).

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