English

Quantitative visibility estimates for unrectifiable sets in the plane

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2024-02-27 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

The "visibility" of a planar set SS from a point aa is defined as the normalized size of the radial projection of SS from aa to the unit circle centered at aa. Simon and Solomyak (Real Anal. Exchange 2006/07) proved that unrectifiable self-similar one-sets are invisible from every point in the plane. We quantify this by giving an upper bound on the visibility of δ\delta-neighbourhoods of such sets. We also prove lower bounds on the visibility of δ\delta-neighborhoods of more general sets, based in part on Bourgain's discretized sum-product estimates

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@article{arxiv.1306.5469,
  title  = {Quantitative visibility estimates for unrectifiable sets in the plane},
  author = {M. Bond and I. Laba and J. Zahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5469},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

42 pages, 3 figures. v2: comprehensive revision, following detailed suggestions by a referee

R2 v1 2026-06-22T00:38:53.242Z