How to define your dimension: A discourse on Hausdorff dimension and self-similarity

DOI10.1080/00029890.2022.2105117MaRDI QIDQ6356499arXivFDO

Authors Satvik Singh

Publication date 19 December 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2022.2105117

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hausdorff and packing measures (28A78) Fractals (28A80)

arXiv classification

math.HOmath.MG

Abstract: One often distinguishes between a line and a plane by saying that the former is one-dimensional while the latter is two. But, what does it mean for an object to have $d-$dimensions? Can we define a consistent notion of dimension rigorously for arbitrary objects, say a snowflake, perhaps? And must the dimension always be integer-valued? After highlighting some crucial problems that one encounters while defining a sensible notion of dimension for a certain class of objects, we attempt to answer the above questions by exploring the concept of Hausdorff dimension -- a remarkable method of assigning dimension to subsets of arbitrary metric spaces. In order to properly formulate the definition and properties of the Hausdorff dimension, we review the critical measure-theoretic terminology beforehand. Finally, we discuss the notion of self-similarity and show how it often defies our quotidian intuition that dimension must always be integer-valued.

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