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Density spectrum of Cantor measure

Dynamical Systems 2023-06-28 v4 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

Given ρ(0,1/3]\rho\in(0, 1/3], let μ\mu be the Cantor measure satisfying μ=12μf01+12μf11\mu=\frac{1}{2}\mu f_0^{-1}+\frac{1}{2}\mu f_1^{-1}, where fi(x)=ρx+i(1ρ)f_i(x)=\rho x+i(1-\rho) for i=0,1i=0, 1. The support of μ\mu is a Cantor set CC generated by the iterated function system {f0,f1}\{f_0, f_1\}. Continuing the work of Feng et al. (2000) on the pointwise lower and upper densities Θs(μ,x)=lim infr0μ(B(x,r))(2r)s,Θs(μ,x)=lim supr0μ(B(x,r))(2r)s, \Theta_*^s(\mu, x)=\liminf_{r\to 0}\frac{\mu(B(x,r))}{(2r)^s},\qquad \Theta^{*s}(\mu, x)=\limsup_{r\to 0}\frac{\mu(B(x,r))}{(2r)^s}, where s=log2/logρs=-\log 2/\log\rho is the Hausdorff dimension of CC, we give a complete description of the sets DD_* and DD^* consisting of all possible values of the lower and upper densities, respectively. We show that both sets contain infinitely many isolated and infinitely many accumulation points, and they have the same Hausdorff dimension as the Cantor set CC. Furthermore, we compute the Hausdorff dimension of the level sets of the lower and upper densities. Our method consists in formulating an equivalent ``dyadic" version of the problem involving the doubling map on [0,1)[0,1), which we solve by using known results on the entropy of a certain open dynamical system and the notion of tuning.

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@article{arxiv.2008.04474,
  title  = {Density spectrum of Cantor measure},
  author = {Pieter Allaart and Derong Kong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.04474},
  year   = {2023}
}

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30 pages, 2 figures

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