Hausdorff dimension and distance sets (Q1335157)

The author uses a brilliant refinement of Fourier restriction phenomena to spheres to improve results on difference sets \(D(A)= \{| x- y|; x,y\in A\}\) for Souslin sets \(A\) in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) due to Falconer. For example, if \(A\subset \mathbb{R}^ 2\) and the Hausdorff dimension \(\dim A> {13\over 9}\) (instead of \({3\over 2}\) as in Falconer's general result) then \(D(A)\) has positive measure.