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Fractal transference principles for subsets of $\mathbb{N}^d$ of positive density

Dynamical Systems 2026-01-27 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We establish a multidimensional fractal transference principle for digit-restricted sets associated with subsets of Nd\mathbb{N}^d, extending the one-dimensional framework of Nakajima--Takahasi, Adv. Math. (2025). We develop general Hausdorff-dimension tools via the singular value potential ϕs(a)\phi^s(\mathbf a) and the multivariate Dirichlet series ζS(σ)=aSj=1dajσj\zeta_S(\boldsymbol{\sigma}) =\sum_{\mathbf a\in S}\prod_{j=1}^d a_j^{-\sigma_j}. Let s:=inf{s>0:aSϕs(a)<}s_\ast:=\inf\{s>0:\sum_{\mathbf a\in S}\phi^s(\mathbf a)<\infty\} and ΛS:=inf{σ1++σd:ζS(σ)<}\Lambda_S:=\inf\{\sigma_1+\cdots+\sigma_d:\zeta_S(\boldsymbol{\sigma})<\infty\}. We obtain dimH(ES)s\dim_H(\mathcal E_S)\le s_\ast, where ES(0,1)d\mathcal E_S\subset(0,1)^d denotes the set of points whose continued-fraction digit vectors lie in SS and whose coordinates escape (i.e.\ an(xj)a_n(x_j)\to\infty for each jj), and s=12ΛSs_\ast=\tfrac12\Lambda_S for uniformly KK--balanced SS. In particular, if SNdS\subset\mathbb{N}^d has positive upper (or upper Banach) density then dimH(ES)=d/2\dim_H(\mathcal E_S)=d/2. On the combinatorial side, the transference principle ensures that translation-invariant configurations forced at positive density, including multidimensional Szemer\'edi patterns, persist inside the induced fractal digit sets.

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@article{arxiv.2601.14418,
  title  = {Fractal transference principles for subsets of $\mathbb{N}^d$ of positive density},
  author = {Zhuowen Guo and Kangbo Ouyang and Jiahao Qiu and Shuhao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.14418},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v2 (51 pages): Added two remarks after Theorem 1.4 and corrected minor typos