Upper estimate of martingale dimension for self-similar fractals (Q365708)

The author is interested in the question of computing martingale dimensions of infinitely ramified fractals such as the Sierpinski carpets and of relating this dimension to other definitions of dimensions. In the paper under review, he provides some results in this direction. He proves that the AF-martingale dimension \(d_m\) of the Brownian motion on (generalized) Sierpinski carpets is dominated by the spectral dimension \(d_s\). In particular, if the process is recurrent (that is, if \(d_s<2\)), then \(d_m=1\). The proof is based on the analytic characterization of \(d_m\) in terms of the index of the associated Dirichlet form that was developed in his previous paper [\textit{M. Hino}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 100, No. 1, 269--302 (2010; Zbl 1185.60089)]. The proof of the main result uses new arguments for the index estimate in general frameworks in which harmonic maps play an essential role.