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Diankun Liu

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arXiv2026

Restriction estimates for surfaces with negative curvature in $\mathbb R^3$

In $\mathbb R^3$, we prove that $L^q\to L^p$ restriction estimates associated with smooth surfaces with negative Gaussian curvature hold for all $p>\frac{22}{7}$ and $q'<\frac{p}{2}$. Building on Demeter--Wu's work for the model hyperbolic paraboloid, we introduce a geometric propagation principle for good lines, which controls the degenerate directions arising from straight-line segments on the surface. This overcomes a key difficulty in the general case, where such directions may vary with the geometry rather than being fixed by the coordinate axes.

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arXiv2025

Restriction and Kakeya maximal estimates in $\mathbb{R}^4$

By combining the planebrush argument of Katz and Zahl \cite{katz21} with the decoupling-incidence method of Wang and Wu \cite{WangWu2024}, we derive new bounds for the Fourier restriction problem and the Bochner--Riesz problem, extending the range to $p > 2 + \frac{200}{251}$ in $\mathbb{R}^4$. Moreover, leveraging the two-ends Furstenberg estimate in the plane, we also obtain a Kakeya maximal estimate in $\mathbb{R}^4$ at dimension $3.054$.

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arXiv2025

Curved Kakeya sets for generic phases in odd dimensions

We show that for each odd integer $n\ge 3$, there is an open dense subset of Hörmander phase functions in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for which the associated curved Kakeya sets have Hausdorff dimension at least $\frac{n+1}{2} + d_n$ for some positive $d_n$, thereby exceeding the classical compression threshold. In particular, in $\mathbb{R}^3$, generic Hörmander phases induce curved Kakeya sets of dimension at least $2 + \tfrac17$. As an application, on a generic three-dimensional Riemannian manifold, a local Nikodym set has Hausdorff dimension at least $2 + \tfrac17$. We achieve these results by generalizing the finite contact order condition from Dai--Gong--Guo--Zhang, originally developed in $\mathbb{R}^3$, to arbitrary dimensions. Our bounds are stronger than those of Dai--Gong--Guo--Zhang even in $\mathbb{R}^3$, since we derive curved Kakeya estimates directly via the polynomial method. Moreover, for Hörmander-type oscillatory integral operators with positive-definite phases of finite contact order, we obtain quantitative improvements in all odd dimensions over the bounds of Guth--Hickman--Iliopoulou, while in three dimensions our oscillatory integral estimate exactly matches the result of Dai--Gong--Guo--Zhang.

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arXiv2025

Curved Kakeya sets and Nikodym problems on manifolds

In this paper, we study curved Kakeya sets associated with phase functions satisfying Bourgain's condition. In particular, we show that the analysis of curved Kakeya sets arising from translation-invariant phase functions under Bourgain's condition, as well as Nikodym sets on manifolds with constant sectional curvature, can be reduced to the study of standard Kakeya sets in Euclidean space. Combined with the recent breakthrough of Wang and Zahl, our work establishes the Nikodym conjecture for three-dimensional manifolds with constant sectional curvature. Moreover, we consider $(d,k)$-Nikodym sets and $(s,t)$-Furstenberg sets on Riemannian manifolds. For manifolds with constant sectional curvature, we prove that these problems can similarly be reduced to their Euclidean counterparts. As a result, the Furstenberg conjecture on two-dimensional surfaces with constant Gaussian curvature follows from the work of Ren and Wang.

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