Unique expansions and intersections of Cantor sets

Abstract: To each

a l p h a i n (1 / 3, 1 / 2)

we associate the Cantor set

Gamma_{alpha}:=Big{sum_{i=1}^{infty}epsilon_{i}alpha^i: epsilon_iin{0,1},,igeq 1Big}.

In this paper we consider the intersection

G a m m a_{a} l p h a c a p (G a m m a_{a} l p h a + t)

for any translation

t i n m a t h b b R

. We pay special attention to those

t

with a unique

- 1, 0, 1

a l p h a

-expansion, and study the set

D_alpha:={dim_H(Gamma_alpha cap (Gamma_alpha + t)):t extrm{ has a unique }{-1,0,1},alpha extrm{-expansion}}.

We prove that there exists a transcendental number

a l p h a_{K L} a p p r o x 0.39433 l d o t s

such that:

D_{a} l p h a

is finite for

a l p h a i n (a l p h a_{K L}, 1 / 2),

D_{a l p h a_{K L}}

is infinitely countable, and

D_{a l p h a}

contains an interval for

a l p h a i n (1 / 3, a l p h a_{K L}) .

We also prove that

D_{a} l p h a

equals

[0, f r a c l o g 2 - l o g a l p h a]

if and only if

a l p h a i n (1 / 3, f r a c 3 - s q r t 5 2] .

As a consequence of our investigation we prove some results on the possible values of

d i m_{H} (G a m m a_{a} l p h a c a p (G a m m a_{a} l p h a + t))

when

G a m m a_{a} l p h a c a p (G a m m a_{a} l p h a + t)

is a self-similar set. We also give examples of

t

with a continuum of

- 1, 0, 1

a l p h a

-expansions for which we can explicitly calculate

d i m_{H} (G a m m a_{a} l p h a c a p (G a m m a_{a} l p h a + t)),

and for which

G a m m a_{a} l p h a c a p (G a m m a_{a} l p h a + t)

is a self-similar set. We also construct

a l p h a

and

t

for which

G a m m a_{a} l p h a c a p (G a m m a_{a} l p h a + t)

contains only transcendental numbers. Our approach makes use of digit frequency arguments and a lexicographic characterisation of those

t

with a unique

- 1, 0, 1

a l p h a

-expansion.

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