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Let \({\mu}\) be a Frostman measure on \({E\subset\mathbb{R}^d}\). The spherical average estimate
was originally used to attack Falconer distance conjecture, via Mattila’s integral. In this paper we consider the pinned distance problem, a stronger version of Falconer distance problem, and show that spherical average estimates imply the same dimensional threshold on both of them. In particular, with the best known spherical average estimates, we improve Peres–Schlag’s result on pinned distance problem significantly. The idea in our approach is to reduce the pinned distance problem to an integral where spherical averages apply. The key new ingredient is the following identity. Using a group action argument, we show that for any Schwartz function f on \({\mathbb{R}^d}\) and any \({x\in\mathbb{R}^d}\),
where \({\omega_r}\) is the normalized surface measure on \({r S^{d-1}}\). An interesting remark is that the right hand side can be easily seen equal to
An alternative derivation of Mattila’s integral via group actions is also given in the Appendix.
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Liu, B. An L2-identity and pinned distance problem. Geom. Funct. Anal. 29, 283–294 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-019-00482-8
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