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Kakeya problem and projection problem for $k$-geodesics in Grassmannians

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2024-04-11 v1 Combinatorics Metric Geometry

Abstract

The Kakeya problem in Rn\mathbb{R}^n is about estimating the size of union of kk-planes; the projection problem in Rn\mathbb{R}^n is about estimating the size of projection of a set onto every kk-plane (1kn11\le k\le n-1). The k=1k=1 case has been studied on general manifolds in which 11-planes become geodesics, while k2k\ge 2 cases were still only considered in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. We formulate these problems on homogeneous spaces, where kk-planes are replaced by kk-dimensional totally geodesic submanifolds. After formulating the problem, we prove a sharp estimate for Grassmannians.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2404.04290,
  title  = {Kakeya problem and projection problem for $k$-geodesics in Grassmannians},
  author = {Shengwen Gan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04290},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

25 pages; 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2305.14544

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