Stable intersections of affine Cantor sets (Q2583500)

The authors construct open sets of pairs of affine Cantor sets with the simplest possible combinatorics (defined by two affine expansive maps) which have a stable intersection in many relative positions (and so their arithmetic differences persistently contain nontrivial intervals), but do not satisfy the generalized thickness conditions of \textit{C. G. T. de A. Moreira} [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Anal. Nonlinéaire 13, 747--781 (1996; Zbl 0865.58035)] The main result is given in Theorem 2 (Section 2) where it is demonstrated that there exists a nonempty compact recurrent set in relative configuration while the product of lateral thickness \(\tau_R(K)\cdot\tau_L(K^\prime)\) is smaller than one. It is also presented (Section 5) the topological structure of difference sets \(K-\lambda K^\prime\).