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Lipschitz Equivalence Class, Ideal Class and the Gauss Class Number Problem

Metric Geometry 2013-04-19 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study the question of classifying self-similar sets under bi-Lipschitz mappings and obtain an important bi-Lipschitz invariant, which is an ideal of a ring related to IFS. Roughly speaking, different Lipschitz equivalence classes of self-similar sets correspond to different ideal classes of a related ring. This result reveals an interesting relationship between the Lipschitz classification problem in fractal geometry and the Gauss class number problem in algebraic number theory.

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@article{arxiv.1304.0103,
  title  = {Lipschitz Equivalence Class, Ideal Class and the Gauss Class Number Problem},
  author = {Li-Feng Xi and Ying Xiong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0103},
  year   = {2013}
}

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59 pages, 6 figures

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