The Hausdorff dimension of the visible sets of connected compact sets

Publication date 10 October 2003

Hausdorff and packing measures (28A78) Fractals (28A80) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15)

Abstract: For a compact subset K of the plane and a point x, we define the visible part of K from x to be the set K_x={uin K : [x,u]cap K={u}}. (Here [x,u] denotes the closed line segment joining x to u.) In this paper, we use energies to show that if K is a compact connected set of Hausdorff dimension larger than one, then for (Lebesgue) almost every point x in the plane, the Hausdorff dimension of K_x is strictly less than the Hausdorff dimension of K. In fact, for almost every x, dim(K_x)leq {1/2}+sqrt{dim(K)-{3/4}}. We also give an estimate of the Hausdorff dimension of those points where the visible set has dimension larger than s+{1/2}+sqrt{dim(K)-{3/4}}, for s>0.

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