Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ
Mathematica
Volumen 32, 2007, 545-548

SETS OF FINITE H1 MEASURE THAT INTERSECT POSITIVELY MANY LINES IN INFINITELY MANY POINTS

Marianna Csörnyei and David Preiss

University College London, Department of Mathematics
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; mari 'at' math.ucl.ac.uk

University of Warwick, Mathematics Institute
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; D.Preiss 'at' warwick.ac.uk

Abstract. We construct a planar Borel set A of finite H1-measure such that through positively many points of A, positively many lines meet A at infinitely many points. This answers a question of Mattila.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 28A75.

Key words: Besicovitch's projection theorem, rectifiability, duality.

Reference to this article: M. Csörnyei and D. Preiss: Sets of finite H1 measure that intersect positively many lines in infinitely many points Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math. 32 (2007), 545-548.

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