On a Besicovitch set

DOI10.4171/LEM/59-3-5zbMATH Open1320.28006arXiv1206.5645OpenAlexW2036981614MaRDI QIDQ495207FDOQ495207

Jean-Pierre Kahane

Publication date: 9 September 2015

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Here is an example of a plane set of vanishing area and consisting of line-segments whose directions cover an angle : let E be a Cantor set of dissection ratio 1/4 (therefore dimension 1/2) carried by the horizontal axis and E' the image of E by an homothetic transformation of ratio 2 whose center is not on the horizontal axis ; the union of the line segments joining E and E' is the set in question. The example was given in 1969 by the author with a wrong proof. The present article contains a short proof based on the projection theorem of Besicovitch, and a long proof resulting from the investigation of the arithmetic, geometric and analytic properties of the horizontal sections of the set. This investigation copies the study by Richard Kenyon of a similar problem. Variations of the construction are provided in the plane and in multidimensional spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5645

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Contents, measures, outer measures, capacities (28A12) Special sets (thin sets, Kronecker sets, Helson sets, Ditkin sets, Sidon sets, etc.) (43A46)

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