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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.