Dimensions of the coordinate functions of space-filling curves (Q2642178)

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Dimensions of the coordinate functions of space-filling curves
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    Dimensions of the coordinate functions of space-filling curves (English)
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    20 August 2007
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    In this article, the authors compute the box-counting dimension of the graphs of the coordinate functions of the one parameter Pólya space-filling curve of a right triangle. Moreover they provide bounds for the Hausdorff dimension of those sets. The paper starts with a review of McMullen carpets, self-affine sets and the dimension of the coordinate function graphs of Peano, Hilbert and Lebesgue space-filling curves of the unit square. Then, the authors study the dimension problem for Pólya's curves. More concretely, take a right triangle whose hypothenuse lies on the positive horizontal axis and it is of length 1. Let \(a\) be the the distance to the origin of the foot of the altitude over the hypothenuse. The box-counting dimension of the coordinate functions of the Pólya space-filling curve of the triangle is \[ d_B=1+\log_2(\sqrt{a}+\sqrt{1-a}) \] The case of computing the Hausdorff dimension of these graphs is a much more complicated task. Being bounded above by the box-counting dimension, the authors provide the following lower bound of Hausdorff dimension: \[ d_h \geq 1+[-a\log_4 (a) -(1-a)\log_4(1-a)]. \]
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    Hausdorff dimension
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    box-counting dimension
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    self-affine set
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    space-filling curve
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