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How large dimension guarantees a given angle?

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2012-04-09 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We study the following two problems: (1) Given n2n\ge 2 and \al\al, how large Hausdorff dimension can a compact set A\su\RnA\su\Rn have if AA does not contain three points that form an angle \al\al? (2) Given \al\al and \de\de, how large Hausdorff dimension can a %compact subset AA of a Euclidean space have if AA does not contain three points that form an angle in the \de\de-neighborhood of \al\al? An interesting phenomenon is that different angles show different behaviour in the above problems. Apart from the clearly special extreme angles 0 and 180180^\circ, the angles 60,9060^\circ,90^\circ and 120120^\circ also play special role in problem (2): the maximal dimension is smaller for these special angles than for the other angles. In problem (1) the angle 9090^\circ seems to behave differently from other angles.

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@article{arxiv.1101.1426,
  title  = {How large dimension guarantees a given angle?},
  author = {Viktor Harangi and Tamás Keleti and Gergely Kiss and Péter Maga and András Máthé and Pertti Mattila and Balázs Strenner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.1426},
  year   = {2012}
}
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