Interior of sums of planar sets and curves

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Abstract: Recently, considerable attention has been given to the study of the arithmetic sum of two planar sets. We focus on understanding the interior left(A+Gammaight)circ, when Gamma is a piecewise mathcalC2 curve and AsubsetmathbbR2. To begin, we give an example of a very large (full-measure, dense, Gdelta) set A such that left(A+S1ight)circ=emptyset, where S1 denotes the unit circle. This suggests that merely the size of A does not guarantee that (A+S1)circeemptyset. If, however, we assume that A is a kind of generalized product of two reasonably large sets, then left(A+Gammaight)circeemptyset whenever Gamma has non-vanishing curvature. As a byproduct of our method, we prove that the pinned distance set of C:=CgammaimesCgamma, gammageqfrac13, pinned at any point of C has non-empty interior, where Cgamma (see (1.1)) is the middle 12gamma Cantor set (including the usual middle-third Cantor set, C1/3). Our proof for the middle-third Cantor set requires a separate method. We also prove that C+S1 has non-empty interior.









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