13:00 - 13:30 |
Karoly Simon: (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Randomly perturbed self-similar sets ↓ We are given a self-similar Iterated Function System (IFS) on the real line S:={S1,…,Sm}.
We fix a sufficiently large interval ˆI which is sent into itself by all mappings of S.
For an arbitrary n≥1, and i=(i1,…,in)∈{1,…,m}n the corresponding level n cylinder interval is
Ii1,…,in:=Si1∘⋯∘Sin(ˆI).
The collection of level n
cylinder intervals is
In:={Ii1,…,in:(i1,…,in)∈{1,…,m}n}.
The attractor is
Λ:=∞⋂n=1⋃I∈InI.
We say that Λ
is self-similar set.
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{\bf{Open Problem}}
Is there a self-similar set of positive Lebesgue measure and empty interior on the line?
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We consider this problem for randomly perturbed self-similar sets, which
are obtained in the following way:
In the randomly perturbed case, the
n-cylinder interval ˜Ii1,…,in corresponding
to the indices i=(i1,…,in)∈{1,…,m}n is
obtained
by replacing Sik in formula (???)
by a random and independent of everything translation ˜Sik
of Sik for all k=1,…,n. Then we build the randomly perturbed attractor
in an analogous way to formula (???) from the randomly perturbed cylinder intervals ˜Ii1…in. That is
˜In:={˜Ii1,…,in:(i1,…,in)∈{1,…,m}n},
and the randomly perturbed self-similar set is
˜Λ:=∞⋂n=1⋃˜I∈˜In˜I.
First, I review results related to the Lebesgue measure and
Hausdorff dimension of these randomly perturbed self-similar sets.
Then, I turn to our new result (joint with M. Dekking, B. Szekely, and N. Szekeres)
about the existence of interior points in these randomly perturbed self-similar sets. (TCPL 201) |
13:36 - 13:41 |
Alex Cohen: (MIT) Fractal geometry and Heilbronn's triangle problem ↓ Given `n' points inside of a unit square, can we always find 3 points forming a small area triangle? Heilbronn asked for asymptotic upper bounds on the smallest area triangle in an arbitrary set of `n' points. Roth, Komlos, Pintz, and Szemeredi made significant progress on this problem in the late 1970s. We discuss recent work using ideas from fractal geometry to improve on their upper bound for this problem. (TCPL 201) |
13:48 - 13:53 |
Caleb Marshall: (UBC) A Projection Theoretic Triptych ↓ We spend our small time sharing with the audience three questions in projection theory. Each of these correspond to the ongoing research program of the presenter. The idea is to give a brief sketch (largely in pictures and examples) of the main questions, with a few comments on the tools utilized to examine each problem. Short problem descriptions are given below.
The Favard Length problem (1) asks: if a set in the plane has positive and finite length, but almost-every orthogonal projection of the set has zero length, what is the expected asymptotics of projections of thin neighbourhoods of the set? Continuous Erdős-Beck Theorems (2) assert that, whenever sets are not concentrated (in a dimensional sense) on hyperplanes, then the associated family of spanning lines must have complementarily-large dimension. Falconer-Type Estimates for Dot Products (3) asks one to produce a dimensional threshold for sets in n-dimensional Euclidean space such that the associated dot product set has positive Lebesgue measure.
Material for Problem (1) is based on past/ongoing joint work with Izabella Łaba; Material for Problem (2) is based on ongoing joint work with Paige Bright; Material for Problem (3) is based on ongoing joint work with Paige Bright and Steven Senger. (TCPL 201) |
13:54 - 13:59 |
Alex McDonald: (OSU) Point configurations in products of thick Cantor sets ↓ An area of much recent activity in geometric measure theory is the study of conditions on compact sets which guarantee the existence of patterns. A classic example is the Falconer distance problem, which asks how large the Hausdorff dimension must be to ensure a positive measure worth of distances (or, more generally, to ensure the set of distances contains a non-degenerate interval). In this talk I will discuss analogous problems where the notion of Hausdorff dimension is replaced with "thickness", another natural notion of size for Cantor sets. (TCPL 201) |