Directions sets: a generalisation of ratio sets

Abstract: For every integer

k g e q 2

and every

A s u b s e t e q m a t h b b N

, we define the emph{

k

-directions sets} of

A

as

and

, where

| c d o t |

is the Euclidean norm and

. Via an appropriate homeomorphism,

D^{k} (A)

is a generalization of the emph{ratio set}

R (A) := a / b : a, b i n A

, which has been studied by many authors. We study

D^{k} (A)

and

D^{u n d e r l i n e k} (A)

as subspaces of

. In~particular, generalizing a result of Bukor and T'oth, we provide a characterization of the sets

X s u b s e t e q S^{k - 1}

such that there exists

A s u b s e t e q m a t h b b N

satisfying

D^{u n d e r l i n e k} (A)^{p} r i m e = X

, where

Y^{p} r i m e

denotes the set of accumulation points of

Y

. Moreover, we provide a simple sufficient condition for

D^{k} (A)

to be dense in

S^{k - 1}

. We conclude leaving some questions for further research.

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