# Jozsef Solymosi “Directions in an affine Galois plane and the clique number of the Paley graph”

July 16, 2020
19.00 MSK (UTC +3)

# Jozsef Solymosi "Directions in an affine Galois plane and the clique number of the Paley graph"

Jozsef Solymosi from University of British Columbia will give the talk "Directions in an affine Galois plane and the clique number of the Paley graph" on the labs' Big Seminar.

The talk will be held in zoom
Meeting ID: 279-059-822
Password: first 6 decimal places of $\pi$ after the decimal point

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Abstract:

We prove that the number of directions determined by a set of the form A × B ⊂ AG(2,p), where p is prime, is at least |A||B| − min{|A|,|B|} + 2. We are using the polynomial method: the Rédei polynomial with Szőnyi's extension + a simple variant of Stepanov's method. As an application of the result, we obtain an upper bound on the clique number of the Paley graph.

Based on joint work with Daniel Di Benedetto and Ethan White.

## Watch the video:

Everyone is invited to attend. The language of the lecture is English. The event is aimed at master and graduate students, as well as researchers in the field of combinatorics.