Multifractal analysis on the flexed Sierpiński gasket (Q5461978)

The flexed Sierpiński gasket \(\Lambda\) constructed by \textit{K. Rudnik} [Bull. Pol. Acad. Sci., Math. 37, No. 1--6251--254 (1989; Zbl 0767.51006)] is a non-affine modification of the standard Sierpiński gasket. The construction starts with an isosceles triangle \(\Delta^{\varphi}\) with the \textit{principal angle} \(\varphi \in (0, \pi/3)\) and two longer sides of length 1. It is then replaced by three isosceles triangles \(\Delta_0\), \(\Delta_1\) and \(\Delta_2\) of longer sides of length \(1/2\), where \(\Delta_0\) shares the same principal angle \(\varphi\) with \(\Delta^{\varphi}\), \(\Delta_1\) and \(\Delta_2\) have their principle vertices coincide, respectively, with the two non-principal vertices of \(\Delta^{\varphi}\). Moreover, \(\Delta_1\) and \(\Delta_2\) have one common non-principal vertex and their remaining non-principal vertices coincide, respectively, with the two non-principal vertices of \(\Delta_{0}\). This construction procedure can be iterated and the limit set \[ \Lambda = \Lambda^{\varphi} = \bigcap_{n=1}^\infty \bigcup_{\varepsilon_1, \ldots, \varepsilon_n \in \{0, 1, 2\}} \Delta_{\varepsilon_1, \ldots, \varepsilon_n} \] is called the flexed Sierpiński gasket. In the paper under review, the author shows that the box dimension and Hausdorff dimension of \(\Lambda\) are \[ \text{ BD}(\Lambda) = {{\log (\sqrt{17} +1)} \over {\log 2}} - 1 \] and \[ \text{ HD}(\Lambda) = {q_0 \over {q_0+1}} - {{q_0 \log q_0 + (1 - q_0) \log (1 - q_0)} \over {\log 2}}, \] where \(q_0 \in (0, 1)\) is the unique solution of \((q+1)^2 \log[q/(1 - q)] = \log 2\). Moreover, he establishes the multifractal formalism for Bernoulli measures on \(\Lambda\). It is interesting to note that these results do not depend on the angle \(\varphi\) in the definition of \(\Lambda\).