No label defined (Q4384010)

The authors of the present paper describe a class of self-similar Cantor sets in \({\mathbb{R}}\), whose correlation dimension is smaller than the similarity dimension. Namely, let \(\Lambda\) be the attractor of the IFS \((S_i)_{i=1,\ldots,d}\), \(S_i:{\mathbb{R}}\to {\mathbb{R}}\), \(S_i(x)={\lambda}_i x+ t_i\), \({\lambda}_i\in (0,1)\), and \(t_i\in {\mathbb{R}}\). As usual one considers the address map defined on the symbolic space \(\Sigma={\{1,2,\ldots, d\}}^{\mathbb{N}}\): \[ \pi:\Sigma\to\Lambda, \pi(s)= \lim_{n\to\infty}S_{s_1}\circ S_{s_2} \circ\cdots\circ S_{s_n}(0). \] One associates to this map the set of bad pairs \[ \text{Bad}=\{(s,t)\in{\Sigma}^2 | \pi(s)=\pi(t)\}. \] The main result of the paper states: If \(\Lambda\) is the attractor of the IFS \((S_i)\) satisfying: \[ 0=t_1 < t_i, i\neq 1, {t_i\over 1-{\lambda}_i}<b, i\neq d, \] where \(b\) is such that \([0,b]\) is the convex hull of \(\Lambda\), then under the condition: a) the set \(\Lambda\) has thickness greater than one or b) \(\lambda_1=\lambda_2=\cdots=\lambda_d\) and \(\Lambda\) is an interval the correlation dimension of \(\Lambda\) is \(D_2(\Lambda)=\dim_B\Sigma^2-{\overline {\dim}}_B \text{Bad}\), where \(\dim_B\) stands for the box counting dimension.