The nn-dimensional Minkowski arithmetic Kakeya conjecture

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Fix a positive integer nn. Let fnM(k)\mathcal{f}^M_n(k) be the infimum of the Minkowski dimension of a set Bk⊂RnB_k\subset\mathbb{R}^n containing a kk-term arithmetic progression with every common difference in [0,1]n[0,1]^n. nn-dimensional Minkowski arithmetic Kakeya conjecture.

lim⁡k→∞fnM(k)=n.\lim_{k\to\infty}\mathcal{f}^M_n(k)=n.

This is one of three higher-dimensional formulations that the source says are equivalent. It asserts that increasingly long progressions with all common differences force Minkowski dimension approaching the ambient dimension; no resolution is given.

References

Primary source

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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