New bounds on the dimensions of planar distance sets

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Abstract: We prove new bounds on the dimensions of distance sets and pinned distance sets of planar sets. Among other results, we show that if AsubsetmathbbR2 is a Borel set of Hausdorff dimension s>1, then its distance set has Hausdorff dimension at least 37/54approx0.685. Moreover, if sin(1,3/2], then outside of a set of exceptional y of Hausdorff dimension at most 1, the pinned distance set |xy|:xinA has Hausdorff dimension gefrac23s and packing dimension at least frac14(1+s+sqrt3s(2s))ge0.933. These estimates improve upon the existing ones by Bourgain, Wolff, Peres-Schlag and Iosevich-Liu for sets of Hausdorff dimension >1. Our proof uses a multi-scale decomposition of measures in which, unlike previous works, we are able to choose the scales subject to certain constrains. This leads to a combinatorial problem, which is a key new ingredient of our approach, and which we solve completely by optimizing certain variation of Lipschitz functions.



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