Spectral triples for the variants of the Sierpiński gasket (Q2327715)

The author investigates the question of when spectral triples defined on variants of the Sierpiński gasket SG recover the Hausdorff dimension, the geodesic distance, and the Hausdorff measure of SG. It is shown that the conjecture by Lapidus and Sarhad regarding the recovery of the Hausdorff measure with respect to the geodesic distance on the harmonic gasket by the Dixmier trace is false. Moreover, the author proves that the Dixmier trace on the harmonic gasket does recover the standard self-affine measure on the harmonic gasket but that this measure is not the same as the Hausdorff measure with respect to the geodesic distance. In addition, it is shown that a spectral triple built on the edges of the stretched Sierpiński gasket can be used to recover the Hausdorff dimension, the geodesic metric, and the Hausdorff measure. This is a particularly interesting result as the stretched Sierpiński gasket is a self-affine but not a self-similar space.