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Closed sets with the Kakeya property

Metric Geometry 2018-02-02 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We say that a planar set AA has the Kakeya property if there exist two different positions of AA such that AA can be continuously moved from the first position to the second within a set of arbitrarily small area. We prove that if AA is closed and has the Kakeya property, then the union of the nontrivial connected components of AA can be covered by a null set which is either the union of parallel lines or the union of concentric circles. In particular, if AA is closed, connected and has the Kakeya property, then AA can be covered by a line or a circle.

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@article{arxiv.1802.00286,
  title  = {Closed sets with the Kakeya property},
  author = {Marianna Csörnyei and Kornélia Héra and Miklós Laczkovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00286},
  year   = {2018}
}
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