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A Complex Gap Lemma

Dynamical Systems 2018-10-08 v1

Abstract

Inspired by the work of Newhouse in one real variable, we introduce a relevant notion of thickness for dynamical Cantor sets of the plane associated to a holomorphic IFS. Our main result is a complex version of Newhouse's Gap Lemma : we show that under some assumptions, if the product t(K)t(L) of the thicknesses of two Cantor sets K and L is larger than 1, then K and L have non empty intersection. Since in addition this thickness varies continuously, this gives a criterion to get a robust intersection between two Cantor sets in the plane.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02544,
  title  = {A Complex Gap Lemma},
  author = {Sébastien Biebler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02544},
  year   = {2018}
}
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