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We obtain a slight improvement to the trilinear bound of Guth-Zahl by application of Wang-Zahl's resolution of 3-D Kakeya to tubes inside a thickened neighborhood of a variety. This is combined with the planebrush argument of Katz and Zahl to obtain the new bound of 3.073.
Green and Sawhney recently obtained a quasipolynomial bound in the Furstenberg--Sárközy theorem for square differences by proving an ``arithmetic level-d'' inequality, thereby yielding a greatly improved density increment scheme. We apply their method to treat general intersective polynomials $h\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$. In particular, let \[ D(h(\mathbb{N}),X):= \max{|A|:\ A\subseteq [1,X]\cap\mathbb{N} \text{and}\ (A-A)\cap h(\mathbb{N})\subseteq\{0\}}. \] We prove that for every $0<μ<1/2$ there are constants $c_0, X_{\text{min}}>0$ depending on $h$ and $μ$ such that for every $X>X_{\text{min}}$, \[D(h(\mathbb{N}), X)\leq Xe^{-c_0(\log X)^μ}.\] This is the best quantitative upper bound presently known for sets lacking intersective polynomial differences, improving upon the work of Arala. In order to achieve the admissible exponent range $0<μ<1/2$, we use sieve methods to develop novel exponential sum estimates in the style of Rice, and we use the ``random sparsification'' procedure of Green and Sawhney.
Katz and Zahl used a planebrush argument to prove that Kakeya sets in $\mathbb{R}^4$ have Hausdorff dimension at least 3.059. In the special case when the Kakeya set is plany, their argument gives a better lower bound of 10/3. We give a nontechnical exposition of the Katz-Zahl argument for plany Kakeya sets in the finite field setting.
Kakeya sets are compact subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$ that contain a unit line segment pointing in every direction. The Kakeya conjecture states that such sets must have Hausdorff dimension $n$. The property of stickiness was first discovered by Katz-Łaba-Tao in their 1999 breakthrough paper on the Kakeya problem. Then Wang-Zahl formalized the definition of a sticky Kakeya set, and proposed a special case of the Kakeya conjecture for such sets. Specifically this conjecture states that sticky Kakeya sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$ have Hausdorff dimension $n$ and Wang-Zahl went on to prove the conjecture for $n=3$. A planebrush is a geometric object which is a higher dimensional analogue of Wolff's hairbrush. Using the planebrush argument, Katz-Zahl showed that Kakeya sets in $\mathbb{R}^4$ have Hausdorff dimension at least 3.059. If we restrict our attention to sticky Kakeya sets, we can improve upon this bound by combining the planebrush result with additional stickiness property. To be precise, we will show in this paper that sticky Kakeya sets in $\mathbb{R}^4$ have dimension at least 3.25.