The centered covering measures of a class of self-similar sets on the plane (Q930119)

The centered covering measure is introduced by \textit{X. Saint Raymond} and \textit{C. Tricot} [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 103, No. 1, 133--145 (1988; Zbl 0639.28005)]. The dimension defined by the centered covering measure is equal to the Hausdorff dimension and is used to estimate the multifractral spectrum of a measure. However, because of the difficulty in the definition, there are few results on the explcit computation of the measure for fractal sets. In addition, all of the results are obtained for the similar sets on the line but not on the plane. This paper concerns with the exact centered covering measure for a class of self-similar sets on the plane. More exactly, let \(S\subset\mathbb{R}^2\) be the attractor of the iterated function system \(\{f_1,f_2\cdot f_3\cdot f_4\}\), where \(f_i():= \lambda_i x+ b_i\), \(0<\lambda_i< (2-\sqrt{2})/2\), \(i= 1,2,3,4\), \(x:= (x_1,x_2)\in\mathbb{R}^2\), \(b_1 :=(0, 0)\), \(b_2:=(1- \lambda_2, 0)\), \(b_3:= (1-\lambda_3, 1-\lambda_3)\), and \(b_4:=(0,1- \lambda_4)\). The authors describe the exact centered measure of S under some conditions relating to the constraction parameter.