Existence of similar point configurations in thin subsets of R^d

DOI10.1007/S00209-020-02537-1MaRDI QIDQ2223537zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Allan Greenleaf, Alex Iosevich, Sevak Mkrtchyan

Publication date 29 January 2021

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04290

zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff dimensionpoint configurationssimilarity classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extremal set theory (05D05) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42B10) Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10) (G)-structures (53C10)

Abstract: We prove the existence of similar and multi-similar point configurations (or simplexes) in sets of fractional Hausdorff measure in Euclidean space. These results can be viewed as variants, for thin sets, of theorems for sets of positive density in $Bbb{R}^d$ due to Furstenberg, Katznelson and Weiss cite{FKW90}, Bourgain cite{B86} and Ziegler cite{Z06}. Let $dge2$ and $Esubset{BbbR}^d$ be a compact set. For $kge1$, define ${\displaystyle }$Delta_k(E)=left{left(|x^1-x^2|, dots, |x^i-x^j|,dots, |x^k-x^{k+1}| ight): left{x^i ight}_{i=1}^{k+1}subset E ight} subset {Bbb R}^{k(k+1)/2}, ${\displaystyle }$ the {it $(k+1)$-point configuration set} of $E$. For $kled$, this is (up to permutations) the set of congruences of $(k+1)$-point configurations in $E$; for $k>d$, it is the edge-length set of $(k+1)$-graphs whose vertices are in $E$. Previous works by a number of authors have found values $s_{k,d}<d$ so that if the Hausdorff dimension of $E$ is $>s_{k,d}$, then $Delt{a}_k(E)$ has positive Lebesgue measure. In this paper we study more refined properties of $Delt{a}_k(E)$, namely the existence of (exactly) similar or multi--similar configurations. For $rinBbbR,,r>0$, let ${\displaystyle }$Delta_{k}^{r}(E):=left{vec{t}in Delta_kleft(E ight): rvec{t}in Delta_kleft(E ight) ight}subset Delta_kleft(E ight).${\displaystyle }$ We show that for all $E$ with Hausdorff dimension $>s_{k,d}$, a natural measure $u_k$ on $Delt{a}_k(E)$ and all $rinBbb{R}_{+}$, one has $u_{k}left(Delt{a}_k^{r}left(Eight)ight)>0$. Thus, there exist many pairs, $x^1,x^2,dots,x^{k+1}$ and $y^1,y^2,dots,y^{k+1}$, in $E$ which are similar by the scaling factor $r$. We also show the existence of triply-similar and multi-similar configurations.

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