Friday, October 27, 2023 3:30 pm
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3:30 pm
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°Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýAverage plane-size
Speaker: | Jim Geelen |
Affiliation: | University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ |
Location: | MC 5501 |
´¡²ú²õ³Ù°ù²¹³¦³Ù:ÌýIn 1941, Eberhard Melchior proved that, given any finite set of points in the plane, not all on a single line, the average length of a spanned line is at most three. Here a line is spanned if it contains at least two of the given points, and the length of a spanned line is the number given points that it contains. We prove a long-overdue analogue of Melchior's result concerning the average size of spanned planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space. This is joint work with Rutger Campbell and Matthew Kroeker.