{"paper":{"title":"Group actions and geometric combinatorics in ${\\mathbb F}_q^d$","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.CA","math.NT"],"primary_cat":"math.CO","authors_text":"A. Iosevich, D. Hart, J. Pakianathan, M. Bennett, M. Rudnev","submitted_at":"2013-11-19T15:57:17Z","abstract_excerpt":"In this paper we apply a group action approach to the study of Erd\\H os-Falconer type problems in vector spaces over finite fields and use it to obtain non-trivial exponents for the distribution of simplices. We prove that there exists $s_0(d)<d$ such that if $E \\subset {\\mathbb F}_q^d$, $d \\ge 2$, with $|E| \\ge Cq^{s_0}$, then $|T^d_d(E)| \\ge C'q^{d+1 \\choose 2}$, where $T^d_k(E)$ denotes the set of congruence classes of $k$-dimensional simplices determined by $k+1$-tuples of points from $E$. Non-trivial exponents were previously obtained by Chapman, Erdogan, Hart, Iosevich and Koh (\\cite{CEH"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1311.4788","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}