The Kakeya conjecture for polynomial Wolff axioms

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A Kakeya set in Rn\mathbb{R}^n is a compact set containing a unit line segment in every direction. A collection T\mathbb{T} of δ\delta-tubes satisfies the polynomial Wolff axioms if it obeys the polynomial incidence bounds for semi-algebraic sets of bounded complexity used in the paper. Write χT\chi_T for the indicator of TT, and define \lessapprox by: for every ϵ>0\epsilon>0, there is a constant CϵC_\epsilon independent of δ\delta such that ACϵδϵBA\leq C_\epsilon\delta^{-\epsilon}B.

Kakeya conjecture for the polynomial Wolff axioms. For every dimension nn, there is a complexity EE such that, whenever T\mathbb{T} is a set of δ\delta-tubes in Rn\mathbb{R}^n obeying the polynomial Wolff axioms for semi-algebraic sets of complexity at most EE,

TTχTn/(n1)1.\Big\|\sum_{T\in\mathbb{T}}\chi_T\Big\|_{n/(n-1)}\lessapprox 1.

This would imply

TTT1.\Big|\bigcup_{T\in\mathbb{T}}T\Big|\gtrapprox 1.

The conjecture would extend the known Wolff-axiom maximal-function estimate and would imply the expected near-unit volume bound for unions of tubes satisfying the polynomial axioms; it remains open.

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Larry Guth and Joshua Zahl, “Polynomial Wolff axioms and Kakeya-type estimates in R^4”, arXiv:1701.07045 (2019).

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