Improving dimension estimates for Furstenberg-type sets (Q1047670)

The authors study the problem of estimating the generalized Hausdorff dimension of Furstenberg sets in the plane. For an \(\alpha\)-Furstenberg set \(F\) (\(\alpha \in (0,1)\)), it is well known that \(\dim_{H}(F)\geq \max\{2\alpha,\alpha+\frac{1}{2}\}\), and these sets can have zero measure at their critical dimension. By looking at general Hausdorff measures \({\mathcal H}^h\) defined for doubling functions, the authors find that they need not be power laws and obtained finer estimates for the size of the more general \(h\)-Furstenberg sets. Furthermore, this approach allows to sharpen the known bounds on the dimension of classical Furstenberg sets.