Iterated function systems with super-exponentially close cylinders

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Abstract: Several important conjectures in Fractal Geometry can be summarised as follows: If the dimension of a self-similar measure in mathbbR does not equal its expected value, then the underlying iterated function system contains an exact overlap. In recent years significant progress has been made towards these conjectures. Hochman proved that if the Hausdorff dimension of a self-similar measure in mathbbR does not equal its expected value, then there are cylinders which are super-exponentially close at all small scales. Several years later, Shmerkin proved an analogous statement for the Lq dimension of self-similar measures in mathbbR. With these statements in mind, it is natural to wonder whether there exist iterated function systems that do not contain exact overlaps, yet there are cylinders which are super-exponentially close at all small scales. In this paper we show that such iterated function systems do exist. In fact we prove much more. We prove that for any sequence (epsilonn)n=1infty of positive real numbers, there exists an iterated function system phiiiinmathcalI that does not contain exact overlaps and minleft{|phi_{mathbf{a}}(0)-phi_{mathbf{b}}(0)|: mathbf{a},mathbf{b}in mathcal{I}^n,, mathbf{a} eq mathbf{b},, r_{mathbf{a}}=r_{mathbf{b}} ight}leq epsilon_n for all ninmathbbN.


It is known that, if the Hausdorff dimension of a self-similar measure in \(\mathbb{R}\) does not equal its expected value, then there are cylinders which are super-exponentially close at all small scales. Moreover, a similar statement holds for the \(L^q\) dimension of self-similar measures in \(\mathbb{R}\). With these statements in mind, the author proves the existence of iterated function systems that do not contain exact overlaps, yet there are cylinders which are super-exponentially close at all small scales.











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