Falconer's \((K, d)\) distance set conjecture can fail for strictly convex sets \(K\) in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) (Q2039503)

Summary: For any norm on \(\mathbb{R}^d\) with countably many extreme points, we prove that there is a set \(E \subset \mathbb{R}^d\) of Hausdorff dimension \(d\) whose distance set with respect to this norm has zero linear measure. This was previously known only for norms associated to certain finite polygons in \(\mathbb{R}^2\). Similar examples exist for norms that are very well approximated by polyhedral norms, including some examples where the unit ball is strictly convex and has \(C^1\) boundary.