Abstract:We consider the problem of determining the number of distinct distances between two point sets in $\mathbb{R}^2$ where one point set $\mathcal{P}_1$ of size $m$ lies on a real algebraic curve of fixed degree $r$, and the other point set $\mathcal{P}_2$ of size $n$ is arbitrary. We prove that the number of distinct distances between the point sets, $D(\mathcal{P}_1,\mathcal{P}_2)$, satisfies\[D(\mathcal{P}_1,\mathcal{P}_2) = \begin{cases}\Omega(m^{1/2}n^{1/2}\log^{-1/2}n), \ \ & \mbox{ when } m = \Omega(n^{… Show more
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