Robust Radical Sylvester-Gallai Theorem for Quadratics

We prove a robust generalization of a Sylvester-Gallai type theorem for quadratic polynomials, generalizing the result in [S'20]. More precisely, given a parameter $0 < δ\leq 1$ and a finite collection $\mathcal{F}$ of irreducible and pairwise independent polynomials of degree at most 2, we say that $\mathcal{F}$ is a $(δ, 2)$-radical Sylvester-Gallai configuration if for any polynomial $F_i \in \mathcal{F}$, there exist $δ(|\mathcal{F}| -1)$ polynomials $F_j$ such that $|\mathrm{rad}(F_i, F_j) \cap \mathcal{F}| \geq 3$, that is, the radical of $F_i, F_j$ contains a third polynomial in the set. In this work, we prove that any $(δ, 2)$-radical Sylvester-Gallai configuration $\mathcal{F}$ must be of low dimension: that is $\dim \mathrm{span}(\mathcal{F}) = \mathrm{poly}(1/δ).$

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