The dimension of random subsets of self-similar sets generated by branching random walk
Abstract
Given a self-similar set that is the attractor of an iterated function system (IFS) , consider the following method for constructing a random subset of : Let be a probability vector, and label all edges of a full -ary tree independently at random with a number from according to , where is an arbitrary integer. Then each infinite path in the tree starting from the root receives a random label sequence which is the coding of a point in . We let denote the set of all points obtained in this way. This construction was introduced by Allaart and Jones [J. Fractal Geom. 12 (2025), 67--92], who considered the case of a homogeneous IFS on satisfying the Open Set Condition (OSC) and proved non-trivial upper and lower bounds for the Hausdorff dimension of . We demonstrate that under the OSC, the Hausdorff (and box-counting) dimension of is equal to the upper bound of Allaart and Jones, and extend the result to higher dimensions as well as to non-homogeneous self-similar sets.
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@article{arxiv.2506.22959,
title = {The dimension of random subsets of self-similar sets generated by branching random walk},
author = {Pieter Allaart and Lauritz Streck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22959},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
30 pages, 1 figure. A mistake in the proof of Theorem 1.2 was corrected and more details were added about the phase transitions in Figure 1