Borel Circle Squaring
Logic
2020-01-20 v2 Combinatorics
Dynamical Systems
Metric Geometry
Abstract
We give a completely constructive solution to Tarski's circle squaring problem. More generally, we prove a Borel version of an equidecomposition theorem due to Laczkovich. If and are bounded Borel sets with the same positive Lebesgue measure whose boundaries have upper Minkowski dimension less than , then and are equidecomposable by translations using Borel pieces. This answers a question of Wagon. Our proof uses ideas from the study of flows in graphs, and a recent result of Gao, Jackson, Krohne, and Seward on special types of witnesses to the hyperfiniteness of free Borel actions of .
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@article{arxiv.1612.05833,
title = {Borel Circle Squaring},
author = {Andrew S. Marks and Spencer T. Unger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05833},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Minor typos corrected