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The Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions

Hot Topics: Interactions between Harmonic Analysis, Homogeneous Dynamics, and Number Theory March 03, 2025 - March 07, 2025

March 03, 2025 (03:30 PM PST - 04:30 PM PST)
Speaker(s): Joshua Zahl (University of British Columbia)
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/Virtual
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The Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions

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A Besicovitch set is a compact subset of R^n that contains a unit line segment pointing in every direction. The Kakeya set conjecture asserts that every Besicovitch set in R^n has Minkowski and Hausdorff dimension n. I will discuss some recent progress on this conjecture, leading to the resolution of the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions. This is joint work with Hong Wang.

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