On Radii of spheres determined by subsets of Euclidean space (Q485255)

The author considers the following two problems; (1) how large the Hausdorff dimension of a subset \(E\) of the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^d\) \((d\geq 2)\) must be such that the Lebesgue measure of the set of radii of \((d-1)\)-dimensional spheres determined by \(E\) is positive and, (2) how often can a neighborhood of a given radius repeat. Using a general mechanism developed in Grafakos et. al regarding the study of Falconer-type problems it is shown that if \(\displaystyle \text{dim}_{\mathcal{H}}(E)>d-1+\frac{1}{d}\), then a neighborhood of a given radius can not repeat more often than the statistical bound, a result which is sharp in \(\displaystyle\mathbb{R}^2\). In addition the author proves an intersection theorem and aided by it he proves that if \(\displaystyle \text{dim}_{\mathcal{H}}(E)>d-1\), then for a.e. \(\displaystyle\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^d\) the radii set of \((d-1)\)-spheres centered at \(\alpha\) determined by \(E\) has positive Lebesgue measure.