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Tagged harmonic-analysis — 2 entries. Clear

A planar set of dimension > 1 determines a positive-measure set of distances. Conjectured threshold d/2; plane record 5/4 — Kakeya's distance cousin.

· geometric measure theory / harmonic analysis · difficulty 5/5

harmonic-analysis

How small can a set be that contains a unit line segment pointing in every direction? Dimension three fell in 2025 in a proof hailed as a once-in-a-century achievement; dimension four and beyond remain open.

Posed by Sōichi Kakeya (needle problem); modern form via Besicovitch & Perron trees · 1917 · geometric measure theory / harmonic analysis · difficulty 5/5

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