Related papers: Covering sponges with tubes

We show that non-trivial $\times N$-invariant sets in $[0,1]^d$, such as the Sierpi\'{n}ski carpet and the Sierpi\'{n}ski sponge, are tube-null, that is, they can be covered by a union of tubular neighbourhoods of lines of arbitrarily small…

We prove that all Sierpi\'nski carpets in the plane are non-removable for (quasi)conformal maps. More precisely, we show that for any two Sierpi\'nski carpets $S,S'\subset \hat{\mathbb{C}}$ there exists a homeomorphism $f\colon…

A Sierpi\'nski packing in the $2$-sphere is a countable collection of disjoint, non-separating continua with diameters shrinking to zero. We show that any Sierpi\'nski packing by continua whose diameters are square-summable can be…

Kolmogorov asked the following question: can every bounded measurable set in the plane be mapped onto a polygon by a 1-Lipschitz map with arbitrarily small measure loss? The answer is negative in general, however, the case of compact sets…

Iterative construction of a Sierpinski carpet or sponge is shown to be a critical phenomenon analogous to uncorrelated percolation. Critical exponents are derived or calculated (by random walks over the carpet or sponge at infinite…

It has been known that the Cartesian product of two Suslin non-sigma-porous sets in topologically complete metric spaces is non-sigma-porous in the product space. The main aim of the present paper is to answer the natural question whether a…

Generalised Sierpinski carpets are planar sets that generalise the well-known Sierpinski carpet and are defined by means of sequences of patterns. We study the structure of the sets at the kth iteration in the construction of the…

In this paper we generalize, for any dimension, a theorem of Tshishiku and Walsh that characterizes the Sierpi\'nski carpet as a limit set of maps from the disc to the sphere.

Very often traditional approaches studying dynamics of self-similarity processes are not able to give their quantitative characteristics at infinity and, as a consequence, use limits to overcome this difficulty. For example, it is well know…

Call a pair $(s,t) \in [0,d] \times [0,d]$ admissible, if there exists a compact set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$ and a constant $C > 0$ such that $0 < \mathcal{H}^{s}(K) < \infty$, and $$\mathcal{H}_{s}(K \cap T) \leq Cw(T)^{t}$$ for all…

We prove that every quasisymmetric self-homeomorphism of the standard 1/3-Sierpi\'nski carpet $S_3$ is a Euclidean isometry. For carpets in a more general family, the standard $1/p$-Sierpi\'nski carpets $S_p$, $p\ge 3$ odd, we show that the…

Both Cantor middle-third set and Sierpi\'nski carpet are self-similar, perfect, compact metric spaces. In spite of the similarity of the mathematical procedure of construction, there exists between them a fundamental difference in…

Using a perturbative argument, we show that in any finite region containing the lowest transverse eigenmode, the spectrum of a periodically curved smooth Dirichlet tube in two or three dimensions is absolutely continuous provided the tube…

In this paper we construct a large family of examples of subsets of Euclidean space that support a 1-Poincar\'e inequality yet have empty interior. These examples are formed from an iterative process that involves removing well-behaved…

Although the Sierpi\'nski triangle has planar area $0$, it is uniformly non-flat: at every point and every scale, its nearby points span a two-dimensional region of comparable size. We prove a sharp version of this statement, showing that…

We obtain a nature generalization for an affine Sierpinski carpet and Sierpinski triangle to $n$-dimensional space, by using the generations and characterizations of affinely-equivalent Sierpinski carpet. Exactly, in this paper, a Menger…

The main result of this paper is a characterization of the minimal surface hull of a compact set $K$ in $\mathbb R^3$ by sequences of conformal minimal discs whose boundaries converge to $K$ in the measure theoretic sense, and also by…

Let E be the total space of a locally trivial torus bundle over the surface \Sigma_g of genus g>1. Using the Seiberg--Witten theory and spectral sequences we prove that E carries a symplectic structure if and only if the homology class of…

The complement of the union of a collection of disjoint open disks in the $2$-sphere is called a Schottky set. We prove that a subset $S$ of the $2$-sphere is quasiconformally equivalent to a Schottky set if and only if every pair of…

We prove four results towards a description, in terms of the null support function, of the set of isometric embeddings of the hyperbolic plane into Minkowski 3-space. We show that for sufficiently tame null support function, the…