On the self crossing six sided figure problem
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On the self crossing six sided figure problem
zbMATH Open document ID: 0940.42010
author: Nets Hawk Katz
published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 1999-10-10T00:00:00Z
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review text: The author defines an axis parallel hexagon to be, essentially, a six-sided polygon with sides parallel to the axes in which self-crossings of sides do not count as vertices. The main result states that there is a constant \(C>0\) such that, for any \(\mu>0\), if \(E\) is a subset of the unit square that does not contain the vertices of any axis parallel rectangle with area greater than \(\mu^2\) and does not contain the vertices of any axis parallel hexagon with area greater than \(\mu^2\) then \(|E|\leq C\mu\). The theorem partially answers a combinatorial question posed by \textit{A. Carbery, M. Christ} and \textit{J. Wright} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 12, No. 4, 981-1015 (1999)] in relation to the question of the size of the sublevel sets of a highly oscillatory function. The area estimate follows, in turn, from a jigsaw puzzle lemma governing the number of subsets of the square possible under certain conditions on the overlaps of their sections.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 42B10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 26D10
zbMATH DE Number: 1348673
zbMATH Keywords: Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
zbMATH Keywords: hexagon
zbMATH Keywords: bilinear
zbMATH Keywords: oscillatory integrals
zbMATH Keywords: sublevel sets
reviewed by: Joseph Lakey
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1348673