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Cantor sets in higher dimensions II: Optimal dimension constraint for stable intersections

Dynamical Systems 2026-04-21 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

It is well known that a pair of compact sets in Rd\mathbb{R}^d (dNd \in \mathbb{N}) can be separated by small deformations if the sum of their upper box dimensions is less than dd. In this paper, we demonstrate that this dimension constraint is optimal for regular Cantor sets. Specifically, for any prescribed upper box dimensions whose sum is greater than dd, we construct classes of pairs of regular Cantor sets that exhibit C1+αC^{1+\alpha}-stable intersections. Our method is geometrically flexible, enabling the construction of examples with arbitrarily small thickness in both projectively hyperbolic and nearly conformal regimes. These results also extend to the complex setting for holomorphic Cantor sets in Cd\mathbb{C}^d. The proof relies on the "covering criterion" for stable intersection introduced in the first part of this series [NZ25], which generalizes the "recurrent compact set criterion" of Moreira-Yoccoz to higher dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2602.16667,
  title  = {Cantor sets in higher dimensions II: Optimal dimension constraint for stable intersections},
  author = {Meysam Nassiri and Mojtaba Zareh Bidaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.16667},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

23 pages, 8 figures. The results have been strengthened by replacing the Hausdorff dimension with the upper box dimension, though the proofs remain unchanged

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:41:41.963Z