Kakeya sets from lines in SL₂

DOI10.15781/EP89-2217MaRDI QIDQ6416735zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nets Hawk Katz, Shukun Wu, J. Zahl

Publication date 9 November 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.15781/EP89-2217

Abstract: We prove that every Kakeya set in

m a t h b b R^{3}

formed from lines of the form

(a, b, 0) + o p e r a t o r n a m e s p a n (c, d, 1)

with

a d - b c = 1

must have Hausdorff dimension

3

; Kakeya sets of this type are called

S L_{2}

Kakeya sets. This result was also recently proved by F"assler and Orponen using different techniques. Our method combines induction on scales with a special structural property of

S L_{2}

Kakeya sets, which says that locally such sets look like the pre-image of an arrangement of plane curves above a special type of map from

m a t h b b R^{3}

to

m a t h b b R^{2}

, called a twisting projection. This reduces the study of

S L_{2}

Kakeya sets to a Kakeya-type problem for plane curves; the latter is analyzed using a variant of Wolff's circular maximal function.

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