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Phase transition of capacity for the uniform $G_{\delta}$-sets

Dynamical Systems 2025-11-17 v2

Abstract

We consider a family of dense GδG_{\delta} subsets of [0,1][0,1], defined as intersections of unions of small uniformly distributed intervals, and study their capacity. Changing the speed at which the lengths of generating intervals decrease, we observe a sharp phase transition from full to zero capacity. Such a GδG_{\delta} set can be considered as a toy model for the set of exceptional energies in the parametric version of the Furstenberg theorem on random matrix products. Our re-distribution construction can be considered as a generalization of a method applied by Ursell in his construction of a counter-example to a conjecture by Nevanlinna. Also, we propose a simple Cauchy-Schwartz inequality-based proof of related theorems by Lindeberg and by Erd\"os and Gillis.

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@article{arxiv.1910.07653,
  title  = {Phase transition of capacity for the uniform $G_{\delta}$-sets},
  author = {Victor Kleptsyn and Fernando Quintino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07653},
  year   = {2025}
}