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Doubling property of self-similar measures with overlaps

Metric Geometry 2025-08-04 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Recently, Yang, Yuan and Zhang [Doubling properties of self-similar measures and Bernoulli measures on self-affine Sierpinski sponges, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 73 (2024), 475-492] characterized when a self-similar measure satisfying the open set condition is doubling. In this paper, we study when a self-similar measure with overlaps is doubling. Let m2m\geq 2 and let β>1\beta>1 be the Pisot number satisfying βm=j=0m1βj\beta^m=\sum_{j=0}^{m-1}\beta^j. Let p=(p1,p2)\mathbf{p}=(p_1,p_2) be a probability weight and let μp\mu_{\mathbf{p}} be the self-similar measure associated to the IFS {S1(x)=x/β,S2(x)=x/β+(11/β),}.\{ S_1(x)={x}/{\beta}, S_2(x)={x}/{\beta}+(1-{1}/{\beta}),\}. Yung [...,Indiana Univ. Math. J., ] proved that when m=2m=2, μp\mu_{\mathbf{p}} is doubling if and only if p=(1/2,1/2)\mathbf{p}=(1/2,1/2). We show that for m3m\geq 3, μp\mu_{\mathbf{p}} is always non-doubling.

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@article{arxiv.2508.00601,
  title  = {Doubling property of self-similar measures with overlaps},
  author = {Yu Wang and Ya-Min Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00601},
  year   = {2025}
}