Unrectifiable 1-sets with moderate essential flatness satisfy Besicovitch's \(\frac 12\)-conjecture
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Unrectifiable 1-sets with moderate essential flatness satisfy Besicovitch's \(\frac 12\)-conjecture
zbMATH Open document ID: 0946.28001
author: Hany M. Farag
published in: Advances in Mathematics
publication date: 2000-07-13T00:00:00Z
review text: The paper under review deals with the long-standing Besicovitch's \(\frac 12\)-conjecture according to which the lower density is typically bounded above by \(\frac 12\) for all totally unrectifiable \(1\)-sets in the plane. A 1-set has positive and finite 1-dimensional Hausdorff measure, and a totally unrectifiable set meets every rectifiable curve in a set of 1-dimensional Hausdorff measure zero. Let \(\sigma_1(\mathbb R^2)\) be the smallest number such that if \(E\subset\mathbb R^2\) is a totally unrectifiable 1-set, then the lower density is bounded above by \(\sigma_1(\mathbb R^2)\) at almost every point in \(E\). In [Math. Ann. 115, 296-329 (1938; Zbl 0018.11302)] \textit{A. S. Besicovitch} proved that \(\frac 12\leq\sigma_1(\mathbb R^2)\leq\frac 34\) and conjectured that \(\sigma_1(\mathbb R^2)=\frac 12\). In a tricky proof the author verifies this conjecture for a subclass of totally unrectifiable \(1\)-sets consisting of sets which are flat almost everywhere. The notation of flatness used to characterize the subclass is related to the earlier work by \textit{P. W. Jones} [Invent. Math. 102, No. 1, 1-15 (1990; Zbl 0731.30018)].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 28A80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 28A75
zbMATH DE Number: 1422991
zbMATH Keywords: unrectifiable sets
zbMATH Keywords: Besicovitch's \(\frac 12\)-conjecture
Wikidata QID: Q123240807
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: aima.1999.1859
OpenAlex ID: W2073644378
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DOI: 10.1006/AIMA.1999.1859
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