Recent Developments on the Kakeya and Restriction Problems

Terence Tao
UCLA
Mathematics

We discuss the interconnections (some old, some recent) between three apparently distinct fields: Kakeya-type problems (how small can one make a set which contains a line in every dimension); estimates for oscillatory integrals; and estimates for dispersive and wave equations. We survey the latest progress on these problems and the ideas used in the proofs.

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