Conjecture on nonsingularity of polynomially bisected directions

Fix nn, and let InRnI^n\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n be the unit cube. Given ε,H>0\varepsilon,H>0, a positive integer NN, and a polynomial QQ, subdivide InI^n into cubes of edge length N1εN^{-1-\varepsilon}. A direction vSn1v\in S^{n-1} is N,ε,HN,\varepsilon,H-singular with respect to QQ if some line in direction vv intersects at least H1N1+εH^{-1}N^{1+\varepsilon} such cubes, each of which is roughly bisected by QQ, meaning that QQ divides it into two parts each having volume at least one tenth of the cube's volume. Polynomial singular-direction conjecture. For every fixed ε,H>0\varepsilon,H>0, and every polynomial QQ whose degree is at most a sufficiently large function of NN, the set of N,ε,HN,\varepsilon,H-singular directions is not all of Sn1S^{n-1}. This conjecture is presented as slightly stronger than the Minkowski Kakeya conjecture and is intended to control the continuity obstruction in the discrete-to-continuous argument. Its resolution is not supplied in the paper.

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Ruixiang Zhang, “Polynomials with dense zero sets and discrete models of the Kakeya conjecture and the Furstenberg set problem”, arXiv:1403.1352 (2014).

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