Keleti's line segment extension conjecture

Let LL be a set of line segments in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. For each line segment \ell, let ~\widetilde\ell denote the line containing \ell. Keleti's line segment extension conjecture.

dim(L~)=dim(L).\mathrm{dim}\,\left(\bigcup_{\ell\in L}\widetilde\ell\right)=\mathrm{dim}\,\left(\bigcup_{\ell\in L}\ell\right).

This conjecture relates the dimensions of unions of line segments and their containing lines and is presented as closely related to the Tube Doubling Conjecture. The supplied material does not state its resolution status.

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Primary source

Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl, “Volume estimates for unions of convex sets, and the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions”, arXiv:2502.17655 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2404.16315, arXiv:1712.09199.

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