Conjecture on the dimension of directions spanned by planar sets

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Let K⊂R2K\subset\mathbb{R}^{2} be a Borel set, not contained on a line, and define the set of unit vectors spanned by KK by

S(K):={x−y∣x−y∣∈S1:x,y∈K, x≠y}.S(K):=\left\{\frac{x-y}{|x-y|}\in S^{1}:x,y\in K,\ x\neq y\right\}.

Here dim⁡H\dim_{\mathrm{H}} denotes Hausdorff dimension. Direction-set dimension conjecture.

dim⁡HS(K)=min⁡{dim⁡HK,1}.\dim_{\mathrm{H}}S(K)=\min\{\dim_{\mathrm{H}}K,1\}.

This would sharpen the preceding lower bound dim⁡HS(K)≥dim⁡HK/2\dim_{\mathrm{H}}S(K)\geq \dim_{\mathrm{H}}K/2 and predict the maximal dimension allowed by the fact that S(K)⊂S1S(K)\subset S^{1}.

References

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Tuomas Orponen, “On the dimension and smoothness of radial projections”, arXiv:1710.11053 (2018).

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