An elementary approach to simplexes in thin subsets of Euclidean space

Abstract: We prove that if the Hausdorff dimension of

E s u b s e t {B b b R}^{d}

,

d g e 3

, is greater than

m i n l e f t f r a c d k + 1 k + 1, f r a c d + k 2 i g h t,

then the

k + 1 c h o o s e 2

-dimensional Lebesgue measure of

T_{k} (E)

, the set of congruence classes of

k

-dimensional simplexes with vertices in

E

, is positive. This improves the best bounds previously known, decreasing the

f r a c d + k + 1 2

threshold obtained in Erdou{g}an-Hart-Iosevich (2012) to

f r a c d + k 2

via a different and conceptually simpler method. We also give a simpler proof of the

d - f r a c d - 1 2 d

threshold for

d

-dimensional simplexes obtained in Greenleaf-Iosevich (2012), Grafakos-Greenleaf-Iosevich-Palsson (2015).

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