A note on dyadic Hausdorff capacities (Q950535)

The dyadic Hausdorff capacity \(\widetilde{H}^d(E)\) of a set \(E\subset {\mathbb R}^n\) (\(0<d\leq n\), \(n \geq 2\)) is defined by \[ \widetilde{H}^d(E)= \inf \biggl\{\sum_j \ell(Q_j)^d\biggr\}, \] where the infimum is taken over all families \(\{Q_j\}\) of dyadic cubes \(Q_j\) of side length \(\ell(Q_j)\) that cover \(E\). The authors show with a counterexample that for \(0<d\leq n-1\), the dyadic Hausdorff capacity is not a Choquet capacity: there exists a sequence of compact sets \(K_j\) and a compact set \(K\) such that \(K_j\downarrow K\) but \(\lim_j \widetilde{H}^d(K_j)\neq \widetilde{H}^d(K)\). They also define a variant of \(\widetilde{H}^d\) which is comparable to \(\widetilde{H}^d\) and is a Choquet capacity.