Introduction to the proof of the Kakeya conjecture
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2025-05-13 v1
Abstract
Recently, Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl announced a proof of the 3-dimensional Kakeya conjecture. This is a survey article on the proof of Kakeya. We introduce the problem, discuss previous work and some of the difficulties of the problem, and describe the new ideas in the recent work.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.07695,
title = {Introduction to the proof of the Kakeya conjecture},
author = {Larry Guth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07695},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
21 pages, 6 figures