Cantor set arithmetic
Metric Geometry
2017-11-27 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
Every element of can be written in the form , where are elements of the Cantor set . In particular, every real number between zero and one is the product of three elements of the Cantor set. On the other hand the set of real numbers that can be written in the form with and in is a closed subset of with Lebesgue measure strictly between and . We also describe the structure of the quotient of by itself, that is, the image of under the function .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.08791,
title = {Cantor set arithmetic},
author = {Jayadev S. Athreya and Bruce Reznick and Jeremy T. Tyson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08791},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Provisionally accepted by the American Mathematical Monthly