We provide an estimate from below for the lower Hausdorff dimension of measures on the unit circle based on the arithmetic properties of their spectra. We obtain our bounds via application of a general result for abstract $q$-regular martingales to the Gundy--Varopoulos backwards martingale. To show the sharpness of our method, we improve the best known numerical lower bound for the Hausdorff dimension of certain Riesz products.
This is a survey on recent developments on the Hausdorff dimension of projections and intersections for general subsets of Euclidean spaces, with an emphasis on estimates of the Hausdorff dimension of exceptional sets and on restricted projection families. We shall also discuss relations between projections and Hausdorff dimension of Besicovitch sets.
Marstrand's projection theorem from $1954$ states that if $K \subset \mathbb{R}^{3}$ is an analytic set, then, for $\mathcal{H}^{2}$ almost every $e \in S^{2}$, the orthogonal projection $π_{e}(K)$ of $K$ to the line spanned by $e$ has Hausdorff dimension $\min\{\dim_{\mathrm{H}} K,1\}$. This paper contains the following sharper version of Marstrand's theorem. Let $V \subset \mathbb{R}^{3}$ be any $2$-plane, which is not a subspace. Then, for $\mathcal{H}^{1}$ almost every $e \in S^{2} \cap V$, the projection $π_{e}(K)$ has Hausdorff dimension $\min\{\dim_{\mathrm{H}} K,1\}$. For $0 \leq t < \…
We link the problem of estimating the lower Hausdorff dimension of PDE or Fourier constrained measures with Harnack's inequalities for the heat equation. Our approach provides new estimates in the case of Fourier constraints.
For $e \in S^{2}$, the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, let $π_{e}$ be the orthogonal projection to $e^{\perp} \subset \mathbb{R}^{3}$, and let $W \subset \mathbb{R}^{3}$ be any $2$-plane, which is not a subspace. We prove that if $K \subset \mathbb{R}^{3}$ is a Borel set with $\dim_{\mathrm{H}} K \leq \tfrac{3}{2}$, then $\dim_{\mathrm{H}} π_{e}(K) = \dim_{\mathrm{H}} K$ for $\mathcal{H}^{1}$ almost every $e \in S^{2} \cap W$, where $\mathcal{H}^{1}$ denotes the $1$-dimensional Hausdorff measure and $\dim_{\mathrm{H}}$ the Hausdorff dimension. This was known earlier, due to Järvenpää, Järvenpää…
A $(d,k)$-set is a subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ containing a $k$-dimensional unit ball of all possible orientations. Using an approach of D.~Oberlin we prove various Fourier dimension estimates for compact $(d,k)$-sets. Our main interest is in restricted $(d,k)$-sets, where the set only contains unit balls with a restricted set of possible orientations $Γ$. In this setting our estimates depend on the Hausdorff dimension of $Γ$ and can sometimes be improved if additional geometric properties of $Γ$ are assumed. We are led to consider cones and prove that the cone in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ has Fourier d…
We study an apparently new question about the behaviour of Weyl sums on a subset $\mathcal{X}\subseteq [0,1)^d$ with a natural measure $μ$ on $\mathcal{X}$. For certain measure spaces $(\mathcal{X}, μ)$ we obtain non-trivial bounds for the mean values of the Weyl sums, and for $μ$-almost all points of $\mathcal{X}$ the Weyl sums satisfy the square root cancellation law. Moreover we characterise the size of the exceptional sets in terms of Hausdorff dimension. Finally, we derive variants of the Vinogradov mean value theorem averaging over measure spaces $(\mathcal{X}, μ)$. We obtain general res…
It is shown that if $A \subseteq \mathbb{R}^3$ is a Borel set of Hausdorff dimension $\dim A \in (3/2,5/2)$, then for a.e. $θ\in [0,2π)$ the projection $π_θ(A)$ of $A$ onto the 2-dimensional plane orthogonal to $\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\cos θ, \sin θ, 1)$ satisfies $\dim π_θ(A) \geq \max\left\{\frac{4\dim A}{9} + \frac{5}{6},\frac{2\dim A+1}{3} \right\}$. This improves the bound of Oberlin and Oberlin, and of Orponen and Venieri, for $\dim A \in (3/2,5/2)$. More generally, a weaker lower bound is given for families of planes in $\mathbb{R}^3$ parametrised by curves in $S^2$ with nonvanishing geodes…
Let $N\ge 2$ and $ρ\in(0,1/N^2]$. The homogenous Cantor set $E$ is the self-similar set generated by the iterated function system \[ \left\{f_i(x)=ρx+\frac{i(1-ρ)}{N-1}: i=0,1,\ldots, N-1\right\}. \] Let $s=\dim_H E$ be the Hausdorff dimension of $E$, and let $μ=\mathcal H^s|_E$ be the $s$-dimensional Hausdorff measure restricted to $E$. In this paper we describe, for each $x\in E$, the pointwise lower $s$-density $Θ_*^s(μ,x)$ and upper $s$-density $Θ^{*s}(μ, x)$ of $μ$ at $x$. This extends some early results of Feng et al. (2000). Furthermore, we determine two critical values $a_c$ and $b_c$ …
We consider the Assouad dimension analogues of two important problems in geometric measure theory. These problems are tied together by the common theme of `passing to weak tangents'. First, we solve an analogue of Falconer's distance set problem for Assouad dimension in the plane: if a planar set has Assouad dimension strictly greater than 1, then its distance set has Assouad dimension 1. We also obtain partial results in higher dimensions. Second, we consider how Assouad dimension behaves under orthogonal projection. We extend the planar projection theorem of Fraser and Orponen to higher dime…
