Tangents to curves and a dyadic parameterization (Q1337419)
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Tangents to curves and a dyadic parameterization (English)
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30 November 1994
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It is well-known that a rectifiable curve has a tangent almost everywhere with respect to arclength measure. The purpose of this paper is to characterize those plane curves which have a tangent almost everywhere with respect to Hausdorff linear measure. To this end, a method of parametrizing arbitrary Jordan curves is introduced. This parametrization is the limit of a sequence of approximating polygons which are generated by a bisection algorithm, with corners corresponding to dyadic points on the parametric domain \([0,1]\). The characterization of points at which the curve has a tangent is in terms of the sequence of line segments which converge to a given point \(z\). In particular, if the difference of arguments of a pair of successive segments is denoted by \(\theta_ n(z)\), then the tangent properties at \(z\) are almost everywhere characterized by the convergence of \(\sum^ \infty_{n= 1} \theta^ 2_ n(z)\). The connection to harmonic measure is made by way of a result of McMillan.
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tangent set
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dyadic parametrization
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