On arithmetic sums of Ahlfors-regular sets

Let $$A,B \subset \mathbb {R}$$ A , B ⊂ R be closed Ahlfors-regular sets with dimensions $$\dim _{\mathrm {H}}A =: \alpha $$ dim H A = : α and $$\dim _{\mathrm {H}}B =: \beta $$ dim H B = : β . I prove that $$\begin{aligned} \dim _{\mathrm {H}}[A + \theta B] \ge \alpha + \beta \cdot \tfrac{1 - \alpha }{2 - \alpha } \end{aligned}$$ dim H [ A + θ B ] ≥ α + β · 1 - α 2 - α for all $$\theta \in \mathbb {R}{\setminus } E$$ θ ∈ R \ E , where $$\dim _{\mathrm {H}}E = 0$$ dim H E = 0 .

Volume and macroscopic scalar curvature

We prove the macroscopic cousins of three conjectures: (1) a conjectural bound of the simplicial volume of a Riemannian manifold in the presence of a lower scalar curvature bound, (2) the conjecture that rationally essential manifolds do not admit metrics of positive scalar curvature, (3) a conjectural bound of $$\ell ^2$$ ℓ 2 -Betti numbers of aspherical Riemannian manifolds in the presence of a lower scalar curvature bound. The macroscopic cousin is the statement one obtains by replacing a lower scalar curvature bound by an upper bound on the volumes of 1-balls in the universal cover.

Idempotent Fourier multipliers acting contractively on $$H^p$$ spaces

We describe the idempotent Fourier multipliers that act contractively on $$H^p$$ H p spaces of the d-dimensional torus $$\mathbb {T}^d$$ T d for $$d\ge 1$$ d ≥ 1 and $$1\le p \le \infty $$ 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ . When p is not an even integer, such multipliers are just restrictions of contractive idempotent multipliers on $$L^p$$ L p spaces, which in turn can be described by suitably combining results of Rudin and Andô. When $$p=2(n+1)$$ p = 2 ( n + 1 ) , with n a positive integer, contractivity depends in an interesting geometric way on n, d, and the dimension of the set of frequencies associated with the multiplier. Our results allow us to construct a linear operator that is densely defined on $$H^p(\mathbb {T}^\infty )$$ H p ( T ∞ ) for every $$1 \le p \le \infty $$ 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ and that extends to a bounded operator if and only if $$p=2,4,\ldots ,2(n+1)$$ p = 2 , 4 , … , 2 ( n + 1 ) .

A proof of Ringel’s conjecture

A typical decomposition question asks whether the edges of some graph G can be partitioned into disjoint copies of another graph H. One of the oldest and best known conjectures in this area, posed by Ringel in 1963, concerns the decomposition of complete graphs into edge-disjoint copies of a tree. It says that any tree with n edges packs $$2n+1$$ 2 n + 1 times into the complete graph $$K_{2n+1}$$ K 2 n + 1 . In this paper, we prove this conjecture for large n.