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Absolute continuity of non-homogeneous self-similar measures

Dynamical Systems 2024-09-24 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs Probability

Abstract

We prove that self-similar measures on the real line are absolutely continuous for almost all parameters in the super-critical region, in particular confirming a conjecture of S-M. Ngai and Y. Wang. While recently there has been much progress in understanding absolute continuity for homogeneous self-similar measures, this is the first improvement over the classical transversality method in the general (non-homogeneous) case. In the course of the proof, we establish new results on the dimension and Fourier decay of a class of random self-similar measures.

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@article{arxiv.1709.05092,
  title  = {Absolute continuity of non-homogeneous self-similar measures},
  author = {Santiago Saglietti and Pablo Shmerkin and Boris Solomyak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.05092},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v3: the statement of Theorem 1.3 was changed (the selection measure for the "model" of a random self-similar measure is assumed to be Bernoulli rather than an arbitrary ergodic shift-invariant measure; this was implicitly used in the proof. The original formulation is still correct; see the footnote on p.8 for details). The main result: Theorem 1.1 is unchanged