The algebraic difference of two random Cantor sets: the Larsson family

DOI10.1214/10-AOP558MaRDI QIDQ2431518zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Károly Simon, F. Michel Dekking, Balázs Székely

Publication date 15 April 2011

Published in The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3304

zbMATH Keywords

differences of Cantor setsmultitype branching processesPalis conjecturerandom fractalsrandom iterated function systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractals (28A80) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Applications of branching processes (60J85)

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a family of random Cantor sets on the line and consider the question of whether the condition that the sum of the Hausdorff dimensions is larger than one implies the existence of interior points in the difference set of two independent copies. We give a new and complete proof that this is the case for the random Cantor sets introduced by Per Larsson.

Review text

This paper concerns a conjecture by \textit{J. Palis} and \textit{F. Takens} [Hyperbolicity and sensitive chaotic dynamics at homoclinic bifurcations. Fractal dimensions and infinitely many attractors. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1993; Zbl 0790.58014)]: For two Cantor sets \(C_1\) and \(C_2\), if \(\dim_H C_1 + \dim_H C_2 > 1\), then generically, it should be true that \(C_2 - C_1 = \{y-x: x\in C_1, y\in C_2\}\) contains an interval. Larsson in his thesis considered a two-parameter family of random Cantor sets \(C_{a,b}\) and claimed to prove that the conjecture holds for all relevant choices of the parameters \(a\) and \(b\). In the present paper, the authors point out that there was an error in Larsson's paper and gave a correct proof to it.

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