A Reverse Analysis of the Sylvester-Gallai Theorem

The Sylvester-Gallai Theorem, the Monochrome Line Theorem and Generalizations Report for a Seminar on the Sylvester-Gallai Theorem

The Sylvester-Chvatal Theorem

The Sylvester-Gallai theorem asserts that every finite set S of points in two-dimensional Euclidean space includes two points, a and b, such that either there is no other point in S is on the line ab, or the line ab contains all the points in S. V. Chvátal extended the notion of lines to arbitrary metric spaces and made a conjecture that generalizes the Sylvester-Gallai theorem. In the present ...

A new proof of the Sylvester-Gallai theorem

In 1893 J. J. Sylvester [8] posed the following celebrated problem: Given a finite collection of points in the affine plane, not all lying on a line, show that there exists a line which passes through precisely two of the points. Sylvester’s problem was reposed by Erdős in 1944 [4] and later that year a proof was given by Gallai [6]. Since then, many proofs of the Sylvester-Gallai Theorem have ...

Extremal Problems Related to the Sylvester–Gallai Theorem

We discuss certain extremal problems in combinatorial geometry, including Sylvester’s problem and its generalizations.

Identity Testing for Depth-3 Circuits with Small Fan-in

4 History of the Sylvester-Gallai Problem 6 4.1 Melchior’s Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.2 Motzkin’s Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.3 Kelly and Moser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.4 Green and Tao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.5 How to describe 3-color ...