Hausdorff dimension of wiggly metric spaces

DOI10.1007/S11512-014-0197-4MaRDI QIDQ2018119zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonas Azzam

Publication date 10 April 2015

Published in Arkiv för Matematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7305

zbMATH Keywords

antenna-like setscompact metric spaceFrostman measuregeodesic deviation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hausdorff and packing measures (28A78) Fractals (28A80) Analysis on metric spaces (30L99)

Abstract: For a compact connected set $Xsubseteqel{l}^{infty}$, we define a quantity $$ that measures how close $X$ may be approximated in a ball $B(x,r)$ by a geodesic curve. We then show there is $c>0$ so that if $$ for all $xinX$ and $r<r_0$, then $$. This generalizes a theorem of Bishop and Jones and answers a question posed by Bishop and Tyson.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a compact connected metric space. Answering a question of \textit{C. J. Bishop} and \textit{J. T. Tyson} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 129, No. 12, 3631--3636 (2001; Zbl 0972.30010)], the author shows that if every ball of \(X\) deviates from a geodesic by at least a uniform amount, then \(X\) has dimension strictly bigger than \(1\). This applies, in particular, to a class of antenna-like (but not necessarily self-similar) sets. The geodesic deviation is measured by a quantity \(\hat\beta\) introduced by Bishop and Tyson [loc. cit.] or, in the main body of the argument, by a variant \(\beta'\), which refers to curves in an ambient space \(\ell^\infty\supset X\) after Kuratowski's embedding theorem. Both \(\hat\beta\) and \(\beta'\) are relatives of the Jones \(\beta\)-numbers in a Hilbert space, and satisfy \(\beta'\leq\beta\), \(\hat\beta\lesssim(\beta')^{1/2}\). The proof makes use of dyadic cube-type structures (with standard nestedness but imperfect covering properties), which induce refining piecewise affine approximations of curves in the space. Via a construction of a suitable Frostman measure, the dimensional lower bound ultimately follows from a counting estimate of points in a discrete net in \(X\). Several concepts and constructions are nicely illustrated by pictures.

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