Degree reduction and graininess for Kakeya-type sets in R^3

DOI10.4171/RMI/891MaRDI QIDQ726764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Larry Guth

Publication date 14 July 2016

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0518

zbMATH Keywords

cylindrical tubesincidence geometryKakeya setpolynomial method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular and oscillatory integrals (Calderón-Zygmund, etc.) (42B20) Helly-type theorems and geometric transversal theory (52A35) Other problems of combinatorial convexity (52A37)

Abstract: Let $frakT$ be a set of cylindrical tubes in $mathbb{R}^3$ of length $N$ and radius 1. If the union of the tubes has volume $N^{3-sigma}$, and each point in the union lies in tubes pointing in three quantitatively different directions, and if a technical assumption holds, then at scale $N^{s}igma$, the tubes are clustered into rectangular slabs of dimension $1imes{N}^{s}igmaimes{N}^{s}igma$. This estimate generalizes the graininess estimate proven by Katz-Laba-Tao. The proof is based on modeling the union of tubes with a high-degree polynomial.

Review text

In [Adv. Math. 225, No. 5, 2828--2839 (2010; Zbl 1202.52022)], the author and \textit{N. H. Katz} proved some results regarding the combinatorics of a finite set of lines in the 3-dimensional space \({\mathbb R}^3\), by using the polynomial method. In the paper under review, the author is able to adapt some ideas contained in the above mentioned work in order to show results for cylindrical tubes instead of lines in \({\mathbb R}^3\). Thus he proves that if \({\mathfrak T}\) is a set of tubes in \({\mathbb R}^3\) with length \(N\) and radius 1 satisfying that (i) the union of the cylinders has volume \(N^{3-\sigma}\), (ii) most points in the union are contained in three tubes of \({\mathfrak T}\) pointing in quantitatively different directions, then in a typical ball of radius \(N^{\sigma}\) the union of the tubes resembles a collection of rectangular slabs of dimensions \(1\times N^{\sigma}\times N^{\sigma}\).

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