Recent progress on the Kakeya conjecture

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT_ESCO02_07MaRDI QIDQ1861097zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nets Hawk Katz, Terence Tao

Publication date 17 June 2003

Published in Publicacions Matemàtiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010069, https://eudml.org/doc/41611

zbMATH Keywords

Besicovitch setsHausdorff dimensionKakeya problemmaximal functionMinkowski dimensionsurvey

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extremal problems in graph theory (05C35) Hausdorff and packing measures (28A78) Maximal functions, Littlewood-Paley theory (42B25)

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to survey the developments on the Kakeya problem in recent years, concentrating on the period after the excellent 1999 survey of Wolff, and including some recent work by the authors. We will focus on the standard Kakeya problem for line segments and not discuss other important variants (such as Kakeya estimates for circles, light rays, or $k$-planes).

Review text

A Besicovitch set (or Kakeya set) \(E\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) is a set which contains a unit line segment in each direction. The Kakeya conjecture is : a Besicovitch set in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) must have Hausdorff dimension \(n\)? This has been verified for \(n=2\) but is open otherwise. The upper Minkowski dimension \(\overline{\dim}E\) is defined as \(\overline{\dim}E=n-\liminf_{\delta\to 0} \log_{\delta}|\mathcal N_\delta (E)|\), where \(\mathcal N_\delta (E)\) is the \(\delta\)-neighbourhood of \(E\). The Minkowski version of the Kakeya conjecture is: a Besicovitch set in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) must have upper Minkowski dimension \(n\)? The third version of the Kakeya conjecture is related to the \(L^p\)-boundedness of the Kakeya maximal function. For \(0<\delta\ll 1\), let \(\Omega\) be a maximal \(\delta\)-separated set of directions on \(S^{n-1}\). For each \(\omega\in \Omega\), let \(T_\omega\) be a \(\delta\times 1\) tube in the direction \(\omega\) in the ball. Let \(0<\lambda\leq 1\), and let \(\tilde{T_\omega}\) be a subset of \(T_\omega\) such that \(|\tilde{T_\omega}|=\lambda|T_\omega|\). One says that \(K_X(p,n)\) holds if for each \(\varepsilon>0\) there exists \(C_\varepsilon >0\) such that \(C_\varepsilon \delta^{-\varepsilon}|\bigcup_{\omega\in \Omega} \tilde{T_\omega}|\geq \lambda^p\delta^{n-p}\). The maximal version of the Kakeya conjecture is: We have \(K_X(n,n)\). The authors survey recent developments, mainly by themselves, on these conjectures on the period after the survey of \textit{T. Wolff} [``Recent work connected with the Kakeya problem, in: ``Prospects in mathematics (Princeton, NJ, 1996), Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, pp. 129-162 (1999; Zbl 0934.42014)]. They review the geometric combinatorics method, the arithmetic combinatorics method, and hybrids of the two.

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