\mathrm{HD}(M\setminus L) > 0.353

Abstract: The complement

M s e t m i n u s L

of the Lagrange spectrum

L

in the Markov spectrum

M

was studied by many authors (including Freiman, Berstein, Cusick and Flahive). After their works, we disposed of a countable collection of points in

M s e t m i n u s L

. In this article, we describe the structure of

M s e t m i n u s L

near a non-isolated point

a l p h a_{i n f t y}

found by Freiman in 1973, and we use this description to exhibit a concrete Cantor set

X

whose Hausdorff dimension coincides with the Hausdorff dimension of

M s e t m i n u s L

near

a l p h a_{i n f t y}

. A consequence of our results is the lower bound

H D (M s e t m i n u s L) > 0.353

on the Hausdorff dimension

H D (M s e t m i n u s L)

of

M s e t m i n u s L

. Another by-product of our analysis is the explicit construction of new elements of

M s e t m i n u s L

, including its largest known member

c i n M s e t m i n u s L

(surpassing the former largest known number

a l p h a_{4} i n M s e t m i n u s L

obtained by Cusick and Flahive in 1989).

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