Fractal metrics of Ruelle expanding maps and expanding ratios (Q2268650)

In the paper it is proven that if \(f:X \rightarrow X\) is a Ruelle expanding map (= positively expansive open map) of a compactum \(X\) and any positive number \(s>1\), then there exists an admissible metric \(d\) for \(X\) and numbers \(\varepsilon >0, \lambda : 1<\lambda <s\), such that if \(x,y\in X\) and \(d(x,y)\leq\varepsilon\), then \(d(f(x),f(y))= \lambda d(x,y)\). If \(f:X\rightarrow X\) is a positively expansive map of a graph \(X\) (=\(1\)-dimensional compact polyhedron), then the same conclusion holds. In these cases the metrics \(d\) satisfy the equality: \[ \dim_H (X,d)=\underline{D}_d (X)=D_d (X)=\frac{h(f)}{\log \lambda}, \] where \(\dim_H (X,d), \underline{D}_d (X), D_d (X)\) denote respectively the Hausdorff dimension, the lower box-counting dimension and the upper box-counting dimension of the compact metric space \((X,d)\), and \(h(f)\) is the topological entropy of \(f\). This implies that such a metric is a ``fractal'' metric of \(X\). There are some similar results for noncompact metric space \((X,d)\).