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The Hausdorff dimension of fractal sets and fractional quantum Hall effect

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-26 v4 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

We consider Farey series of rational numbers in terms of {\it fractal sets} labeled by the Hausdorff dimension with values defined in the interval 1 < < hh < < 2 2 and associated with fractal curves. Our results come from the observation that the fractional quantum Hall effect-FQHE occurs in pairs of {\it dual topological quantum numbers}, the filling factors. These quantum numbers obey some properties of the Farey series and so we obtain that {\it the universality classes of the quantum Hall transitions are classified in terms of hh}. The connection between Number Theory and Physics appears naturally in this context.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0209028,
  title  = {The Hausdorff dimension of fractal sets and fractional quantum Hall effect},
  author = {Wellington da Cruz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0209028},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Typos corrected, 8 pages, latex. To appear in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 2003