The finite-field Furstenberg set lower-bound conjecture

Assume n2n\geq 2, 0β10\leq\beta\leq 1, and pp is prime. Let SFpnS\subseteq\mathbb{F}_p^n be a subset such that for every direction there is a line ll in that direction satisfying

lSpβ.|l\cap S|\geq p^{\beta}.

Finite-field Furstenberg set conjecture. Then

Sqn12+n+12β.|S|\gtrsim q^{\frac{n-1}{2}+\frac{n+1}{2}\beta}.

The preceding construction shows that this exponent is attained up to constants in the paper's examples, so the conjecture asserts sharpness for general prime fields. The statement contains the source's notation qq although the hypotheses specify the prime field Fp\mathbb{F}_p; this should be checked against the original definition of qq.

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Primary source

Ruixiang Zhang, “On configurations where the Loomis-Whitney inequality is nearly sharp and applications to the Furstenberg set problem”, arXiv:1309.2372 (2014).

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