The SL2SL_2 Kakeya conjecture

Let LSL2\mathcal L_{SL_2} be the set of lines in \varmathbbR3\varmathbb{R}^3 of the form (a,b,c,d)=(a,b,0)+span(c,d,1)\ell_{(a,b,c,d)}=(a,b,0)+\operatorname{span}(c,d,1) with adbc=1ad-bc=1, and let LSL2\mathcal L_{SL_2}^* also include lines of the form (0,0,t)+span(c,d,0)(0,0,t)+\operatorname{span}(c,d,0). An SL2SL_2 Kakeya set is a compact set K\varmathbbR3K\subset\varmathbb{R}^3 containing a unit line segment in every direction except (0,0,1)(0,0,1), with each segment lying on a line in LSL2\mathcal L_{SL_2}^*. The SL2SL_2 Kakeya conjecture. Every SL2SL_2 Kakeya set in \varmathbbR3\varmathbb{R}^3 has Minkowski and Hausdorff dimension 33. This is a special case of the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture. It was recently resolved by Fässler and Orponen, and the paper proves the result independently by different methods.

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Primary source

Nets Hawk Katz, Shukun Wu and Joshua Zahl, “Kakeya sets from lines in SL_2”, arXiv:2211.05194 (2023).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2210.09581.

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