Hausdorff dimension, its properties, and its surprises

dc.creatorSchleicher, Dierk
dc.date2005-05-05
dc.date2007-08-21
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dc.descriptionWe review the motivation and fundamental properties of the Hausdorff dimension of metric spaces and illustrate this with a number of examples, some of which are expected and well-known. We also give examples where the Hausdorff dimension has some surprising properties: we construct a set $E\subset\C$ of positive planar measure and with dimension 2 such that each point in $E$ can be joined to $\infty$ by one or several curves in $\C$ such that all curves are disjoint from each other and from $E$, and so that their union has Hausdorff dimension 1. We can even arrange things so that every point in $\C$ which is not on one of these curves is in $E$. These examples have been discovered very recently; they arise quite naturally in the context of complex dynamics, more precisely in the iteration theory of simple maps such as $z\mapsto π\sin(z)$.
dc.description28 pages, 4 figures. Minor revision in process of publication
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505099
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505099
dc.identifierAmerican Mathematical Monthly 114 (2007), 509-528
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/136358
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.subject37-02, 37F10, 37F35, 30D05, 54G20, 28A78
dc.titleHausdorff dimension, its properties, and its surprises
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