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We prove the Kakeya set conjecture for $\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z}$ for general $N$ as stated by Hickman and Wright [HW18]. This entails extending and combining the techniques of Arsovski [Ars21a] for $N=p^k$ and the author and Dvir [DD21] for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Manik Dhar

We provide estimates for the dimensions of sets in $\mathbb{R}$ which uniformly avoid finite arithmetic progressions. More precisely, we say $F$ uniformly avoids arithmetic progressions of length $k \geq 3$ if there is an $\epsilon>0$ such…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Jonathan M. Fraser , Kota Saito , Han Yu

We study a variety of problems about homothets of sets related to the Kakeya conjecture. In particular, we show many of these problems are equivalent to the arithmetic Kakeya conjecture of Katz and Tao. We also provide a proof that the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Charlie Cowen-Breen , Elene Karangozishvili , Narmada Varadarajan , Thomas Wang

We give new lower bounds for the Hausdorff dimension of Kakeya sets built from various families of curves in $\mathbb R^3$, going beyond what the polynomial partitioning method has so-far achieved. We do this by combining Wolff's classical…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Arian Nadjimzadah

We prove that all bounded subsets of $\mathbb{Q}_p^n$ containing a line segment of unit length in every direction have Hausdorff and Minkowski dimension $n$. This is the analogue of the classical Kakeya conjecture with $\mathbb{R}$ replaced…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Bodan Arsovski

In this paper, we study curved Kakeya sets associated with phase functions satisfying Bourgain's condition. In particular, we show that the analysis of curved Kakeya sets arising from translation-invariant phase functions under Bourgain's…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Chuanwei Gao , Diankun Liu , Yakun Xi

We prove a bilinear Kakeya inequality in the first Heisenberg group and a sharp bilinear Kakeya estimate for Euclidean curved tubes in $\R^2$. By adapting an argument of F\"assler, Pinamonti and Wald involving Heisenberg projections, we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yannis Galanos

We show that for each odd integer $n\ge 3$, there is an open dense subset of H\"ormander phase functions in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for which the associated curved Kakeya sets have Hausdorff dimension at least $\frac{n+1}{2} + d_n$ for some positive…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Shaoming Guo , Diankun Liu , Yakun Xi

We prove the discrete analogue of Kakeya conjecture over $\mathbb{R}^n$. This result suggests that a (hypothetically) low dimensional Kakeya set cannot be constructed directly from discrete configurations. We also prove a generalization…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Ruixiang Zhang

We consider unions of $SL(2)$ lines in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. These are lines of the form $$L = (a,b,0) + \mathrm{span}(c,d,1),$$ where $ad - bc = 1$. We show that if $\mathcal{L}$ is a Kakeya set of $SL(2)$ lines, then the union $\cup…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Katrin Fässler , Tuomas Orponen

We consider (bounded) Besicovitch sets in the Heisenberg group and prove that $L^p$ estimates for the Kakeya maximal function imply lower bounds for their Heisenberg Hausdorff dimension.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Laura Venieri

We prove that a Kakeya set in a vector space over a finite field of size $q$ always supports a probability measure whose Fourier transform is bounded by $q^{-1}$ for all non-zero frequencies. We show that this bound is sharp in all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Jonathan M. Fraser

This paper develops an information-theoretic framework for algorithmic complexity under regular identifiable fibering. The central question is: when a decoder is given information about the fiber label in a fibered geometric set, how much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nicholas G. Polson , Daniel Zantedeschi

The restriction and Kakeya problems in Euclidean space have received much attention in the last few decades, and are related to many problems in harmonic analysis, PDE, and number theory. In this paper we initiate the study of these…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Gerd Mockenhaupt , Terence Tao

We define the Heisenberg Kakeya maximal functions $M_{\delta}f$, $0<\delta<1$, by averaging over $\delta$-neighborhoods of horizontal unit line segments in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^1$ equipped with the Kor\'{a}nyi distance…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Katrin Fässler , Andrea Pinamonti , Pietro Wald

We study sets of $\delta$ tubes in $\mathbb{R}^3$, with the property that not too many tubes can be contained inside a common convex set $V$. We show that the union of tubes from such a set must have almost maximal volume. As a consequence,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Hong Wang , Joshua Zahl

A $(d,k)$-set is a subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ containing a $k$-dimensional unit ball of all possible orientations. Using an approach of D.~Oberlin we prove various Fourier dimension estimates for compact $(d,k)$-sets. Our main interest is in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Jonathan M. Fraser , Terence L. J. Harris , Nicholas G. Kroon

We study subsets of the $n$-dimensional vector space over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, for odd $q$, which contain either a sphere for each radius or a sphere for each first coordinate of the center. We call such sets radii spherical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Mehdi Makhul , Audie Warren , Arne Winterhof

The arithmetic Kakeya conjecture, formulated by Katz and Tao in 2002, is a statement about addition of finite sets. It is known to imply a form of the Kakeya conjecture, namely that the upper Minkowski dimension of a Besicovitch set in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Ben Green , Imre Ruzsa

This paper presents several new results related to the Kakeya problem. First, we establish a geometric inequality which says that collections of direction-separated tubes (thin neighborhoods of line segments that point in different…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Joshua Zahl