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Hausdorff dimension of restricted Kakeya sets

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-06-26 v2

Abstract

A Kakeya set in Rn\mathbb{R}^n is a compact set that contains a unit line segment IeI_e in each direction eSn1e \in S^{n-1}. The Kakeya conjecture states that any Kakeya set in Rn\mathbb{R}^n has Hausdorff dimension nn. We consider a restricted case where the midpoint of each line segment IeI_e must belong to a fixed set AA with packing dimension at most s[0,n]s \in [0, n]. In this case, we show that the Hausdorff dimension of the Kakeya set is at least nsn - s. Furthermore, using the "bush argument", we improve the lower bound to max{ns,ngn(s)}\max \{ n - s, n - g_n(s)\}, where gn(s)g_n(s) is defined inductively. For example, when n=4n = 4, we prove that the Hausdorff dimension is at least max{19535s,4s}\max\{\frac{19}{5} - \frac{3}{5}s,4-s\}. We also establish Kakeya maximal function analogues of these results.

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@article{arxiv.2505.05709,
  title  = {Hausdorff dimension of restricted Kakeya sets},
  author = {Jonathan M. Fraser and Lijian Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05709},
  year   = {2025}
}

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