Pure Maths Colloquium: Orit Raz
This talk is part of the Pure Maths Colloquium at the University of St Andrews. Check out our upcoming talks at https://theran.lt/pure-colloquium/.
| Where: | Zoom 862 5811 6194 |
| When: | Apr 22 2021 @ 16.00 | Video: | Not recorded |
| Speaker: | Orit Raz The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Title: | Expanding polynomials and the discretized Elekes-Rónyai theorem |
Elekes and Rónyai have characterized real bivariate polynomials which have a small image over large Cartesian products. Besides being an interesting problem in itself, the Elekes-Rónyai setup, and certain generalizations thereof (such as those considered by Elekes and Szabó), arise in many Erdős-type problems in combinatorial geometry and additive combinatorics.
In the talk I will give some overview of this topic, and then tell about a recent result (joint with J. Zahl) in which cardinality of a finite set is replaced by either the \(delta\)-covering number of a set, or its Hausdorff dimension.