English

$(n,k)$-Besicovitch sets do not exist in $\mathbb{Z}_p^n$ and $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}^n$ for $k\ge 2$

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2023-12-06 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Besicovitch showed that a compact set in Rn\mathbb{R}^n which contains a unit line segment in every direction can have measure 00. These constructions also work over other metric spaces like the pp-adics and profinite integers. It is conjectured that it is impossible to construct sets with measure 00 which contain a unit 22-disk in every direction in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. We prove that over the pp-adics and profinite integers any set which contains a 2-flat in every direction must have positive measure. The main ingredients are maximal Kakeya estimates for (Z/NZ)n(\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z})^n proven in [Dha22] and adapting Fourier analytic arguments of Oberlin [Obe05]. In general, we prove Ln1L^{n-1} to Ln1L^{n-1} estimates for the maximal operator corresponding to 22-flats.

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@article{arxiv.2312.02495,
  title  = {$(n,k)$-Besicovitch sets do not exist in $\mathbb{Z}_p^n$ and $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}^n$ for $k\ge 2$},
  author = {Manik Dhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02495},
  year   = {2023}
}