On the Finite Field Kakeya Problem in Two Dimensions
Number Theory
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
A two-dimensional Besicovitch set over a finite field is a subset of the finite plane containing a line in each direction. In this paper, we conjecture a sharp lower bound for the size of such a subset and prove some results toward this conjecture.
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@article{arxiv.math/0510356,
title = {On the Finite Field Kakeya Problem in Two Dimensions},
author = {X. W. C. Faber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0510356},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages; added mention of an alternate proof of the Incidence Formula; included mention of the recent related result of Joshua Cooper. to appear in "Journal of Number Theory"