Let $C$ be the middle-third Cantor set. In this paper, we show that for every $x\in [0,4]$, there exist $x_1, x_2, x_3, x_4 \in C$ such that $$x= x_1^2+x_2^2+x_3^2+x_4^2,$$ which answers a question posed by Athreya, Reznick,and Tyson.
In this paper, we study the metric theory of dyadic approximation in the middle-third Cantor set. This theory complements earlier work of Levesley, Salp, and Velani (2007), who investigated the problem of approximation in the Cantor set by triadic rationals. We find that the behaviour when we consider dyadic approximation in the Cantor set is substantially different to considering triadic approximation in the Cantor set. In some sense, this difference in behaviour is a manifestation of Furstenberg's times 2 times 3 phenomenon from dynamical systems, which asserts that the base 2 and base 3 exp…
We prove upper and lower bounds for the Lebesgue measure of the set of products $xy$ with $x$ and $y$ in the middle-third Cantor set. Our method is inspired by Athreya, Reznick and Tyson, but a different subdivision of the Cantor set provides a more rapidly converging approximation formula.
Let $C$ be the middle third Cantor set and $μ$ be the $\frac{\log 2}{\log 3}$-dimensional Hausdorff measure restricted to $C$. In this paper we study approximations of elements of $C$ by dyadic rationals. Our main result implies that for $μ$ almost every $x\in C$ we have $$\#\left\{1\leq n\leq N:\left|x-\frac{p}{2^n}\right| \leq \frac{1}{n^{0.01}\cdot 2^{n}}\textrm{ for some }p\in\mathbb{N}\right\}\sim 2\sum_{n=1}^{N}n^{-0.01}.$$ This improves upon a recent result of Allen, Chow, and Yu which gives a sub-logarithmic improvement over the trivial approximation rate.
In the present paper, We introduce a pair of middle Cantor sets namely $(C_α, C_β)$ having stable intersection, while the product of their thickness is smaller than one. Furthermore, the arithmetic difference $C_α- λC_β$ contains at least one interval for each nonzero number $λ$.
In this paper, we study $C^ζ$-calculus on generalized Cantor sets, which have self-similar properties and fractional dimensions that exceed their topological dimensions. Functions with fractal support are not differentiable or integrable in terms of standard calculus, so we must involve local fractional derivatives. We have generalized the $C^ζ$-calculus on the generalized Cantor sets known as middle-$ξ$ Cantor sets. We have suggested a calculus on the middle-$ξ$ Cantor sets for different values of $ξ$ with $0<ξ<1$. Differential equations on the middle-$ξ$ Cantor sets have been solved, and we …
After the correction of an inaccurate result in the reference, the author uses five different methods, and gets five different inequalities on the Hausdorff measure of the Cartesian product of the middle third Cantor set with itself: $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.548563$$ $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.504975$$ $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.502878$$ $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.503263$$ $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.502483.$$ The main theory of this paper is the best among them, which is $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.502483.$$
Let $C$ be the middle-third Cantor set, and $f$ a continuous function defined on an open set $U\subset \mathbb{R}^{2}$. Denote the image \begin{equation*} f_{U}(C,C)=\{f(x,y):(x,y)\in (C\times C)\cap U\}. \end{equation*} If $\partial _{x}f$, $\partial _{y}f$ are continuous on $U,$ and there is a point $(x_{0},y_{0})\in (C\times C)\cap U$ such that \begin{equation*} 1<\left\vert \frac{\partial _{x}f|_{(x_{0},y_{0})}}{\partial _{y}f|_{(x_{0},y_{0})}}\right\vert <3\text{ or }1<\left\vert \frac{\partial _{y}f|_{(x_{0},y_{0})}}{\partial _{x}f|_{(x_{0},y_{0})}}\right\vert <3, \end{equation*} then $f…
For $λ\in(0,1/3]$ let $C_λ$ be the middle-$(1-2λ)$ Cantor set in $\mathbb R$. Given $t\in[-1,1]$, excluding the trivial case we show that \[ Λ(t):=\left\{λ\in(0,1/3]: C_λ\cap(C_λ+t)\ne\emptyset\right\} \] is a topological Cantor set with zero Lebesgue measure and full Hausdorff dimension. In particular, we calculate the local dimension of $Λ(t)$, which reveals a dimensional variation principle. Furthermore, for any $β\in[0,1]$ we show that the level set \[ Λ_β(t):=\left\{λ\inΛ(t): \dim_H(C_λ\cap(C_λ+t))=\dim_P(C_λ\cap(C_λ+t))=β\frac{\log 2}{-\log λ}\right\} \] has equal Hausdorff and packing d…
We consider the convergence theory for dyadic approximation in the middle-third Cantor set, $K$, for approximation functions of the form $ψ_τ(n) = n^{-τ}$ ($τ\ge 0$). In particular, we show that for values of $τ$ beyond a certain threshold we have that almost no point in $K$ is dyadically $ψ_τ$-well approximable with respect to the natural probability measure on $K$. This refines a previous result in this direction obtained by the first, third, and fourth named authors (arXiv, 2020).
Let $C$ be the middle-third Cantor set. Define $C*C=\{x*y:x,y\in C\}$, where $*=+,-,\cdot,÷$ (when $*=÷$, we assume $y\neq0$). Steinhaus \cite{HS} proved in 1917 that \[ C-C=[-1,1], C+C=[0,2]. \] In 2019, Athreya, Reznick and Tyson \cite{Tyson} proved that \[ C÷C=\bigcup_{n=-\infty}^{\infty}\left[ 3^{-n}\dfrac{2}{3},3^{-n}\dfrac {3}{2}\right] . \] In this paper, we give a description of the topological structure and Lebesgue measure of $C\cdot C$. We indeed obtain corresponding results on the uniform $λ$-Cantor sets.
Let $C_\la$ and $C_\ga$ be two affine Cantor sets in $\mathbb{R}$ with similarity dimensions $d_\la$ and $d_\ga$, respectively. We define an analog of the Bandt-Graf condition for self-similar systems and use it to give necessary and sufficient conditions for having $\Ha^{d_\la+d_\ga}(C_\la + C_\ga)>0$ where $C_\la + C_\ga$ denotes the arithmetic sum of the sets. We use this result to analyze the orthogonal projection properties of sets of the form $C_\la \times C_\ga$. We prove that for Lebesgue almost all directions $θ$ for which the projection is not one-to-one, the projection has zero $(d_…
In this paper we consider the long-term behavior of points in ${\mathbb R}$ under iterations of continuous functions. We show that, given any Cantor set $Λ^*$ embedded in ${\mathbb R}$, there exists a continuous function $F^*:{\mathbb R}\to{\mathbb R}$ such that the points that are bounded under iterations of $F^*$ are just those points in $Λ^*$. In the course of this, we find a striking similarity between the way in which we construct the Cantor middle-thirds set, and the way in which we find the points bounded under iterations of certain continuous functions.
In this paper, we study the following question raised by Mattila in 1998: what are the self-similar subsets of the middle-third Cantor set $\C$? We give criteria for a complete classification of all such subsets. We show that for any self-similar subset $\F$ of $\C$ containing more than one point every linear generating IFS of $\F$ must consist of similitudes with contraction ratios $\pm 3^{-n}$, $n\in \N$. In particular, a simple criterion is formulated to characterize self-similar subsets of $\C$ with equal contraction ratio in modulus.
Let $C$ be the classical middle third Cantor set. It is well known that $C+C = [0,2]$ (Steinhaus, 1917). (Here $+$ denotes the Minkowski sum.) Let $U$ be the set of $z \in [0,2]$ which have a unique representation as $z = x + y$ with $x, y \in C$ (the set of uniqueness). It isn't difficult to show that $\dim_H U = \log(2) / \log(3)$ and $U$ essentially looks like $2C$. Assuming $0,n-1 \in A \subset \{0,1,\dots,n-1\}$, define $C_A = C_{A,n}$ as the linear Cantor set which the attractor of the iterated function system \[ \{ x \mapsto (x + a) / n: a \in A \}. \] We consider various properties of …
This work addresses problems on simultaneous Diophantine approximation on fractals, motivated by a long standing problem of Mahler regarding Cantor's middle $1/3$ set. We obtain the first instances where a complete analogue of Khintchine's Theorem holds for fractal measures. Our results apply to fractals which are self-similar by a system of rational similarities of $\mathbb{R}^d$ (for any $d\geq 1$) and have sufficiently small Hausdorff co-dimension. A concrete example of such measures in the context of Mahler's problem is the Hausdorff measure on the "middle $1/5$ Cantor set"; i.e. the set o…