The exact dimension formula for line sets of trapped sets

Let XRnX \subset \mathbb{R}^n and let T(X)=TT(X)=T be the trapping number of XX. Suppose that HA(n,T)H \in \mathcal{A}(n,T) is the unique hyperplane such that

dim(XH)<dimX,\dim(X \setminus H)<\dim X,

and set X1=XHX_1=X \cap H and X2=XHX_2=X \setminus H. Here, L(X)\mathcal{L}(X) denotes the set of lines intersecting XX, and dim\dim denotes Hausdorff dimension.

Exact dimension formula. One has

dimL(X)=max{dim(X1×X2),min{dim(X1×X1),2(T1)}}.\dim \mathcal{L}(X)=\max\left\{\dim(X_1 \times X_2),\min\left\{\dim(X_1 \times X_1),2(T-1)\right\}\right\}.

The formula is proposed because the preceding lower bound is attained by an example, but the authors do not expect that bound to be sharp for all Borel sets. The conjecture gives an exact expression in the special situation where the trapping hyperplane is unique.

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Primary source

Paige Bright and Caleb Marshall, “A Continuum Erdős-Beck Theorem”, arXiv:2406.10058 (2024).

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