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On the dimensions of a family of overlapping self-affine carpets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

JONATHAN M. FRASER
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK email jonathan.fraser@manchester.ac.uk
PABLO SHMERKIN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Torcuato Di Tella University, Av. Figueroa Alcorta 7350, Buenos Aires, Argentina email pshmerkin@utdt.edu

Abstract

We consider the dimensions of a family of self-affine sets related to the Bedford–McMullen carpets. In particular, we fix a Bedford–McMullen system and then randomize the translation vectors with the stipulation that the column structure is preserved. As such, we maintain one of the key features in the Bedford–McMullen set-up in that alignment causes the dimensions to drop from the affinity dimension. We compute the Hausdorff, packing and box dimensions outside of a small set of exceptional translations, and also for some explicit translations even in the presence of overlapping. Our results rely on, and can be seen as a partial extension of, Hochman’s recent work on the dimensions of self-similar sets and measures.

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Research Article
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© Cambridge University Press, 2015 

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