Conformal dimension of the antenna set (Q2750860)

The conformal dimension of a compact metric space \(X\) is defined by \(C\dim X=\inf_f\dim f(X)\), where the infimum is over all quasisymmetric maps of \(X\) into some metric space and \(\dim\) denotes Hausdorff dimension. The authors consider the problem of whether the infimum above must be attained. They answer a question posed by J.Heinonen by proving that there exists a compact, connected \(X\subset \mathbb R^2\) such that for every quasisymmetric map \(f\) into a metric space, \(\dim f(X)>1=C\dim X\). Their example is a self-similar set known as the ``antenna set''. The paper contains some interesting open questions for conformal dimension. For example, what is the conformal dimension of the Sierpiński carpet?