Polynomial Wolff axioms and Kakeya-type estimates in R^4

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12138MaRDI QIDQ4583331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. Zahl, Larry Guth

Publication date 28 August 2018

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07045

zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff dimensionKakeya maximal functionlinear and trilinear bounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42B10) Maximal functions, Littlewood-Paley theory (42B25) Harmonic analysis and PDEs (42B37)

Abstract: We establish new linear and trilinear bounds for collections of tubes in $mathbb{R}^4$ that satisfy the polynomial Wolff axioms. In brief, a collection of $delta$-tubes satisfies the Wolff axioms if not too many tubes can be contained in the $delta$-neighborhood of a plane. A collection of tubes satisfies the polynomial Wolff axioms if not too many tubes can be contained in the $delta$-neighborhood of a low degree algebraic variety. First, we prove that if a set of $delt{a}^{-3}$ tubes in $mathbb{R}^4$ satisfies the polynomial Wolff axioms, then the union of the tubes must have volume at least $delt{a}^{1-1/40}$. We also prove a more technical statement which is analogous to a maximal function estimate at dimension $3+1/40$. Second, we prove that if a collection of $delt{a}^{-3}$ tubes in $mathbb{R}^4$ satisfies the polynomial Wolff axioms, and if most triples of intersecting tubes point in three linearly independent directions, then the union of the tubes must have volume at least $delt{a}^{3/4}$. Again, we also prove a slightly more technical statement which is analogous to a maximal function estimate at dimension $3+1/4$. We conjecture that every Kakeya set satisfies the polynomial Wolff axioms, but we are unable to prove this. If our conjecture is correct, it implies a Kakeya maximal function estimate at dimension $3+1/40$, and in particular this implies that every Kakeya set in $mathbb{R}^4$ must have Hausdorff dimension at least $3+1/40$. This would be an improvement over the current best bound of 3, which was established by Wolff in 1995.

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