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Abstract
We provide estimates for the dimensions of sets in ℝ which uniformly avoid finite arithmetic progressions (APs). More precisely, we say F uniformly avoids APs of length k≥3 if there is an ϵ>0 such that one cannot find an AP of length k and gap length Δ>0 inside the ϵΔ neighbourhood of F. Our main result is an explicit upper bound for the Assouad (and thus Hausdorff) dimension of such sets in terms of k and ϵ. In the other direction, we provide examples of sets which uniformly avoid APs of a given length but still have relatively large Hausdorff dimension. We also consider higher dimensional analogues of these problems, where APs are replaced with arithmetic patches lying in a hyperplane. As a consequence, we obtain a discretized version of a “reverse Kakeya problem:” we show that if the dimension of a set in ℝd is sufficiently large, then it closely approximates APs in every direction.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | International Mathematics Research Notices |
Volume | 2017 |
Early online date | 2 Nov 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 2 Nov 2017 |
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Fractal Geometry and Dimension: Fractal Geometry and dimension theory
Fraser, J. (PI)
1/09/16 → 30/06/18
Project: Fellowship