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Sum-Difference Exponents for Boundedly Many Slopes

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arithmetic-kakeya-bounded-slopesAnalysisposed by Nets Katz, Terence Tao (arithmetic Kakeya program), 2002recorded: partial

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The arithmetic Kakeya conjecture asserts the infimum of sum-difference exponents is 1, which would imply the Kakeya conjecture in all dimensions. In the bounded-slope-count regime, Tao establishes that the exponents converge to 2 at a rate controlled by a new notion of rational complexity - mapping where the conjectured route cannot succeed.

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Charts the bounded-slope regime of the arithmetic Kakeya program; the conjecture itself remains open.

The arithmetic Kakeya route (Katz-Tao 2002) is a known pathway to the full Kakeya conjecture, one of harmonic analysis's central open problems.

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    Attempt 1

    proof attemptAlphaEvolve with Terence Tao ·
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    "Inspired by numerical explorations from the tool AlphaEvolve" - the tool's experiments pointed at the bounded-slope regime and its convergence behaviour; the theorems are Tao's.

    Charts the bounded-slope regime of the arithmetic Kakeya program; the conjecture itself remains open.

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