Pinned distance problem, slicing measures, and local smoothing estimates
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Abstract:
We improve on the Peres–Schlag result on pinned distances in sets of a given Hausdorff dimension. In particular, for Euclidean distances, with \[ \Delta ^y(E) = \{|x-y|:x\in E\},\] we prove that for any $E, F\subset {\mathbb {R}}^d$, there exists a probability measure $\mu _F$ on $F$ such that for $\mu _F$-a.e. $y\in F$,
${\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(\Delta ^y(E))\geq \beta$ if ${\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(E)+\frac {d-1}{d+1}{\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(F)>d-1+\beta$,
$\Delta ^y(E)$ has positive Lebesgue measure if ${\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(E)+\frac {d-1}{d+1}{\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(F)>d$,
$\Delta ^y(E)$ has nonempty interior if ${\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(E)+\frac {d-1}{d+1}{\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(F)>d+1$.
We also show that in the case in which ${\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(E)+\frac {d-1}{d+1}{\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(F)>d$, for $\mu _F$-a.e. $y\in F$, \[ \left \{t\in {\mathbb {R}} : {\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(\{x\in E:|x-y|=t\}) \geq {\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(E)+\frac {d+1}{d-1}{\dim _{{\mathcal H}}}(F)-d \right \} \] has positive Lebesgue measure. This describes dimensions of slicing subsets of $E$, sliced by spheres centered at $y$.
In our proof, local smoothing estimates of Fourier integral operators plays a crucial role. In turn, we obtain results on sharpness of local smoothing estimates by constructing geometric counterexamples.
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Additional Information
- Alex Iosevich
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
- MR Author ID: 356191
- Email: iosevich@math.rochester.edu
- Bochen Liu
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
- MR Author ID: 1066951
- Email: bochen.liu@rochester.edu
- Received by editor(s): September 23, 2017
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 30, 2018
- Published electronically: November 19, 2018
- Additional Notes: The second author would like to thank Professor Ka-Sing Lau for the financial support of a research assistantship at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
This work was partially supported by NSA Grant H98230-15-1-0319 - © Copyright 2018 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 371 (2019), 4459-4474
- MSC (2010): Primary 28A75; Secondary 42B20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/7693
- MathSciNet review: 3917228