Countable partitions of the sets of points and lines

James Schmerl

Fundamenta Mathematicae (1999)

  • Volume: 160, Issue: 2, page 183-196
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

Abstract

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The following theorem is proved, answering a question raised by Davies in 1963. If L 0 ∪ L 1 ∪ L 2 ∪ . . . is a partition of the set of lines of ℝ n , then there is a partition ℝ n = S 0 ∪ S 1 ∪ S 2 ∪ . . . such that | ℓ ∩ S i | ≤ 2 whenever ℓ ∈ L i . There are generalizations to some other, higher-dimensional subspaces, improving recent results of Erdős, Jackson Mauldin.

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Schmerl, James. "Countable partitions of the sets of points and lines." Fundamenta Mathematicae 160.2 (1999): 183-196. <http://eudml.org/doc/212387>.

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References

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