Happy fractals and some aspects of analysis on metric spaces (Q1884085)

This is a survey of recent results of analysis on a manifold and a graph which can be considered as a continuous metric space. The doubling property, which is essential in the author's definition of happy fractals, is derived from the Euclidean space. The Sierpiński gasket and Heisenberg group are typical happy fractals whereas the Cantor set and a snowflake are not happy fractals since we cannot find a non-degenerate rectifiable curve in them. The author emphasizes a curve in a happy fractal for the connection to a graph, so they are excluded in his concern. Many types of continuous functions in analysis such as Hölder functions are considered for analysis on graphs.