On volumes of simplices in intermediate dimensions

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Main Authors: Montejo, José Gaitan, Palsson, Eyvindur Ari
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author Montejo, José Gaitan
Palsson, Eyvindur Ari
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Palsson, Eyvindur Ari
contents A variant of the Falconer distance problem asks for fixed $k\geq 1$ and $d\geq k+1$, how large does the Hausdorff dimension of a Borel set $E\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ need to be to guarantee that there exist $x_0,\ldots,x_{k}\in E$ such that $\text{Vol}_{k+1}^{(x_0,\ldots,x_{k})}(E) = \lbrace \text{Vol}_{k+1}(x_0,\ldots,x_{k},x_{k+1}) : x_{k+1}\in E \rbrace$ has positive Lebesgue measure. Here $\text{Vol}_{k+1}(x_0,\ldots,x_{k},x_{k+1})$ denotes the $k+1$-volume of the $k+1$ simplex formed by $x_0,\ldots,x_{k},x_{k+1}$. Recently, Shmerkin and Yavicoli established a sharp dimensional threshold $k$ in the case when $d=k+1$. In this paper we extend their result to $k+1 \leq d \leq 2k$ and obtain a non-trivial dimensional threshold $d-k$ when $d>2k$. The result is motivated by ideas from Shmerkin and Yavicoli. A crucial part of the argument is an application of work by Bright, Ortiz and Zakharov on a continuum Beck-type theorem for hyperplanes as well as classic results of Marstrand on projections and slicing theorems. In addition, we investigate a more elementary approach under a condition called the Fubini property for Hausdorff dimension as introduced in the work of Héra, Keleti and Máthé.
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spellingShingle On volumes of simplices in intermediate dimensions
Montejo, José Gaitan
Palsson, Eyvindur Ari
Classical Analysis and ODEs
28A12, 28A78, 28A80
A variant of the Falconer distance problem asks for fixed $k\geq 1$ and $d\geq k+1$, how large does the Hausdorff dimension of a Borel set $E\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ need to be to guarantee that there exist $x_0,\ldots,x_{k}\in E$ such that $\text{Vol}_{k+1}^{(x_0,\ldots,x_{k})}(E) = \lbrace \text{Vol}_{k+1}(x_0,\ldots,x_{k},x_{k+1}) : x_{k+1}\in E \rbrace$ has positive Lebesgue measure. Here $\text{Vol}_{k+1}(x_0,\ldots,x_{k},x_{k+1})$ denotes the $k+1$-volume of the $k+1$ simplex formed by $x_0,\ldots,x_{k},x_{k+1}$. Recently, Shmerkin and Yavicoli established a sharp dimensional threshold $k$ in the case when $d=k+1$. In this paper we extend their result to $k+1 \leq d \leq 2k$ and obtain a non-trivial dimensional threshold $d-k$ when $d>2k$. The result is motivated by ideas from Shmerkin and Yavicoli. A crucial part of the argument is an application of work by Bright, Ortiz and Zakharov on a continuum Beck-type theorem for hyperplanes as well as classic results of Marstrand on projections and slicing theorems. In addition, we investigate a more elementary approach under a condition called the Fubini property for Hausdorff dimension as introduced in the work of Héra, Keleti and Máthé.
title On volumes of simplices in intermediate dimensions
topic Classical Analysis and ODEs
28A12, 28A78, 28A80
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22450