New bounds on the dimensions of planar distance sets

DOI10.1007/S00039-019-00500-9zbMATH Open1428.28005arXiv1801.08745OpenAlexW2784771313WikidataQ127547528 ScholiaQ127547528MaRDI QIDQ2009031FDOQ2009031

Authors: Tamás Keleti, Pablo Shmerkin 

Publication date: 27 November 2019

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

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 $Asubsetmathbb{R}^2$ 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 $|x-y|:xinA$ has Hausdorff dimension $gefrac23s$ and packing dimension at least $frac14(1+s+sqrt3s(2-s))ge0.933$. 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08745

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zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff dimensionLipschitz functionspacking dimensiondistance setsFalconer's problempinned distance sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lipschitz (Hölder) classes (26A16) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Fractals (28A80) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

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