A new bound for finite field Besicovitch sets in four dimensions

DOI10.2140/PJM.2005.222.337MaRDI QIDQ2497102zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Terence Tao

Publication date 1 August 2006

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204251

zbMATH Keywords

affine spaces over finite fieldsBesicovitch setKakeya conjectureKakeya maximal operatorreguli

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Harmonic analysis in several variables (42B99)

Abstract: Let $F$ be a finite field with characteristic greater than two. Define a emph{Besicovitch set} in $F^4$ to be a set $Psubseteq{F}^4$ containing a line in every direction. The emph{Kakeya conjecture} asserts that $|P|approx|F{|}^4$. A result of Wolff establishes that $|P|gtrsim|F{|}^3$. In this paper we improve this to $|P|gtrapprox|F{|}^{3+gain}$. On the other hand, we show that the bound of $|F{|}^3$ is sharp if we relax the assumption that the lines point in different directions. One new feature in the argument is the introduction of a small amount of basic algebraic geometry.

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