A class of self-similar fractals with overlap structure (Q1383433)

The authors consider the invariant set \(F_\lambda\) generated by the contractions \(S_1(x)=x/3\), \(S_2(x)=(x+\lambda)/3\) und \(S_3(x)=(x+2)/3\) for some \(\lambda\in[0,1]\). They study the structure of \(F_\lambda\) (the kind of overlapping), the Hausdorff measure and the Hausdorff dimension of \(F_\lambda\). The most attractive result is, if \(\lambda=b/a\) for integers \(a\), \(b\) with \((a,b)=1\) then \(F_\lambda\) has positive Lebesgue measure if \(a\equiv b\) and different from \(0\pmod 3\), otherwise \(F_\lambda\) is a Cantor fractal.