Erdős's similarity conjecture

Let XRX\subseteq\mathbb{R} be a measure universal set, meaning that every Lebesgue measurable subset of R\mathbb{R} with positive Lebesgue measure contains an affine copy of XX. Erdős's similarity conjecture. No infinite subset of the real line is measure universal. This is the original Erdős similarity problem; finite sets are measure universal, while the conjecture remains open for arbitrary uncountable sets and even for perfect sets.

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Yeonwook Jung and Chun-Kit Lai, “Topological Erdős similarity conjecture and strong measure zero sets”, arXiv:2410.01275 (2025).

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