Paul Potgieter: A nonstandard approach to the Kakeya conjecture
Date of publication: 15. 11. 2022
Mathematics and theoretical computing seminar
Thursday
17
November
Time:
10:00 - 12:00
Location:
Jadranska 21, 3.07
Speaker: Paul Potgieter (University of South Africa)
Abstract: We discuss the formulation and history of the Kakeya conjecture and some of its links to Fourier analysis. By combining recent results in incidence geometry with nonstandard analysis, we propose a new approach to the problem.