An estimate from below for the Buffon needle probability of the four-corner Cantor set

DOI10.4310/MRL.2010.V17.N5.A12MaRDI QIDQ2275747zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Bateman, Alexander Volberg

Publication date 9 August 2011

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2953

zbMATH Keywords

Favard lengthmiddle-half Cantor setrandom Cantor sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Fractals (28A80)

Abstract: Let $Can{t}_n$ be the $n$-th generation in the construction of the middle-half Cantor set. The Cartesian square $K_n=Can{t}_{n}imesCan{t}_n$ consists of $4^n$ squares of side-length $4^{-n}$. The chance that a long needle thrown at random in the unit square will meet $K_n$ is essentially the average length of the projections of $K_n$, also known as the Favard length of $K_n$. A classical theorem of Besicovitch implies that the Favard length of $K_n$ tends to zero. It is still an open problem to determine its exact rate of decay. Until recently, the only explicit upper bound was $exp(-clo{g}_{\ast }n)$, due to Peres and Solomyak. ($lo{g}_{\ast }n$ is the number of times one needs to take log to obtain a number less than 1 starting from $n$). In Nazarov-Peres-Volberg paper (arxiv:math 0801.2942) the power estimate from above was obtained. The exponent in this paper was less than 1/6 but could have been slightly improved. On the other hand, a simple estimate shows that from below we have the estimate $fraccn$. Here we apply the idea from papers of Nets Katz (MRL (1996), 527-536) and Bateman-Katz (arxiv:math/0609187v1 2006) to show that the estimate from below can be in fact improved to $cfraclognn$. This is in drastic difference from the case of {em random} Cantor sets studied by Peres and Solomyak in Pacific J. Math. 204 (2002), 473-496.

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