Finite Point Configurations and the Regular Value Theorem in a Fractal setting

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2022.71.9054MaRDI QIDQ6341378arXivFDO

Authors Yumeng Ou, Krystal Taylor

Publication date 25 May 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1512/IUMJ.2022.71.9054

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hausdorff and packing measures (28A78) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42B10) Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10)

arXiv classification

math.APmath.CA

Abstract: In this article, we study two problems concerning the size of the set of finite point configurations generated by a compact set $Esubsetmathbb{R}^d$. The first problem concerns how the Lebesgue measure or the Hausdorff dimension of the finite point configuration set depends on that of $E$. In particular, we show that if a planar set has dimension exceeding $frac54$, then there exists a point $xinE$ so that for each integer $kgeq2$, the set of "$k$-chains" with initial point at $x$ has positive Lebesgue measure. The second problem is a continuous analogue of the ErdH{o}s unit distance problem, which aims to determine the maximum number of times a point configuration with prescribed gaps can appear in $E$. For instance, given a triangle with prescribed sides and given a sufficiently regular planar set $E$ with Hausdorff dimension no less than $frac74$, we show that the dimension of the set of vertices in $E$ forming said triangle does not exceed $3,di{m}_{mathcalH}(E)-3$. In addition to the Euclidean norm, we consider more general distances given by functions satisfying the so-called Phong-Stein rotational curvature condition. We also explore a number of examples to demonstrate the extent to which our results are sharp.

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