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Dimension functions of Cantor sets

Author(s): Ignacio Garcia; Ursula Molter; Roberto Scotto
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 3151-3161.
MSC (2000): Primary 28A78, 28A80
Posted: June 21, 2007
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Abstract: We estimate the packing measure of Cantor sets associated to non-increasing sequences through their decay. This result, dual to one obtained by Besicovitch and Taylor, allows us to characterize the dimension functions recently found by Cabrelli et al for these sets.


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Additional Information:

Ignacio Garcia
Affiliation: Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina and IMAL CONICET UNL
Email: igarcia@math.unl.edu.ar

Ursula Molter
Affiliation: Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón I, Capital Federal, Argentina and CONICET, Argentina
Email: umolter@dm.uba.ar

Roberto Scotto
Affiliation: Departamento de Matemática, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
Email: scotto@math.unl.edu.ar

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-07-09019-3
PII: S 0002-9939(07)09019-3
Keywords: Cantor sets, packing measure, Hausdorff dimension, dimension function
Received by editor(s): May 2, 2006
Posted: June 21, 2007
Communicated by: Michael T. Lacey
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
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