Kakeya conjecture for Hausdorff, packing and Minkowski dimension

A Besicitch set is a subset BRnB\subset\mathbb{R}^n containing a unit line segment in every direction. For such a set, let dim\xspaceHB{\mathrm{dim}}\xspace_H B, dim\xspacePB{\mathrm{dim}}\xspace_P B, and dim\xspaceMB{\mathrm{dim}}\xspace_M B denote its Hausdorff, packing, and Minkowski dimensions, respectively. Kakeya conjecture. If BB is a Besicovitch set, then

dim\xspaceHB=n,dim\xspacePB=n,dim\xspaceMB=n.{\mathrm{dim}}\xspace_H B=n,\qquad {\mathrm{dim}}\xspace_P B=n,\qquad {\mathrm{dim}}\xspace_M B=n.

The three assertions are ordered by implication through dim\xspaceHBdim\xspacePBdim\xspaceMB{\mathrm{dim}}\xspace_H B\leq{\mathrm{dim}}\xspace_P B\leq{\mathrm{dim}}\xspace_M B; none of the converse implications is known. The conjecture is a central dimension problem concerning sets containing line segments in every direction.

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Charlie Cowen-Breen, Elene Karangozishvili, Narmada Varadarajan and Thomas Wang, “Pattern Problems related to the Arithmetic Kakeya Conjecture”, arXiv:2011.07056 (2020).

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