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Local structure of self-affine sets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2012
Abstract
The structure of a self-similar set with the open set condition does not change under magnification. For self-affine sets, the situation is completely different. We consider self-affine Cantor sets $E\subset \mathbb {R}^2$ of the type studied by Bedford, McMullen, Gatzouras and Lalley, for which the projection onto the horizontal axis is an interval. We show that in small square
$\varepsilon $-neighborhoods
$N$ of almost each point
$x$ in
$E,$ with respect to many Bernoulli measures on the address space,
$E\cap N$ is well approximated by product sets
$[0,1]\times C$, where
$C$ is a Cantor set. Even though
$E$ is totally disconnected, all tangent sets have a product structure with interval fibers, reminiscent of the view of attractors of chaotic differentiable dynamical systems. We also prove that
$E$has uniformly scaling scenery in the sense of Furstenberg, Gavish and Hochman: the family of tangent sets is the same at almost all points
$x.$
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