English

Sets resilient to erosion

Metric Geometry 2011-01-25 v1

Abstract

The erosion of a set in Euclidean space by a radius r>0 is the subset of X consisting of points at distance >/-r from the complement of X. A set is resilient to erosion if it is similar to its erosion by some positive radius. We give a somewhat surprising characterization of resilient sets, consisting in one part of simple geometric constraints on convex resilient sets, and, in another, a correspondence between nonconvex resilient sets and scale-invariant (e.g., 'exact fractal') sets.

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@article{arxiv.1101.4416,
  title  = {Sets resilient to erosion},
  author = {Wesley Pegden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4416},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

24 pages, 14 figures

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