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Main Author: Ghosal, Anubhab
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07000
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author Ghosal, Anubhab
author_facet Ghosal, Anubhab
contents We show the existence of a set $S\subset\mathbb{Z}^2$ avoiding collinear triples satisfying $|S\cap [n]^2|=Ω(n/\sqrt{\log n})$ for sufficiently large $n$. This improves on the best-known lower bound on Erde's extensible no-three-in-line problem due to Nagy, Nagy and Woodroofe by $\sqrt{\log n}$, leaving the same gap to the trivial upper bound. Our construction is random.
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spellingShingle A note on the extensible no-three-in-line problem
Ghosal, Anubhab
Combinatorics
05D40, 52C35
We show the existence of a set $S\subset\mathbb{Z}^2$ avoiding collinear triples satisfying $|S\cap [n]^2|=Ω(n/\sqrt{\log n})$ for sufficiently large $n$. This improves on the best-known lower bound on Erde's extensible no-three-in-line problem due to Nagy, Nagy and Woodroofe by $\sqrt{\log n}$, leaving the same gap to the trivial upper bound. Our construction is random.
title A note on the extensible no-three-in-line problem
topic Combinatorics
05D40, 52C35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07000