Fractal dimension for fractal structures: A Hausdorff approach (Q409689)

Fractal dimension plays a crucial role in fractal theory characterizing the complexity of fractal sets, its assessment is often very difficult. The fractal dimension is usually understood as the classical box-counting and Hausdorff dimensions. In the present paper the authors proceed to generalize the box-counting and Hausdorff dimensions introducing a new definition of fractal dimension in the more general context of GF-spaces, following the ideas of Hausdorff dimension on any metrizable space. Theorem 4.5 states some relations between the new definition of fractal dimensions and the classical definitions of box-counting and Hausdorff dimensions. While, the practical estimation of Hausdorff dimension is made in an Euclidian space for iterated function systems (IFS) consisting of similitudes and obeys the open set condition (o.s.c), a new method to compute the fractal dimension is proved in the case when the IFS does not satisfy the o.s.c.