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Hausdorff dimension and uniform exponents in dimension two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2018

YANN BUGEAUD
Affiliation:
IRMA, U.M.R. 7501, Université de Strasbourg et C.N.R.S. 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg, France. e-mail: [email protected]
YITWAH CHEUNG
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]
NICOLAS CHEVALLIER
Affiliation:
Haute Alsace University, 4 Rue des Frères Lumière, 68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

In this paper we prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the set of (nondegenerate) singular two-dimensional vectors with uniform exponent μ in (1/2, 1) is equal to 2(1 − μ) for μ$\sqrt2/2$, whereas for μ < $\sqrt2/2$ it is greater than 2(1 − μ) and at most equal to (3 − 2 μ)(1 − μ)/(1 − μ + μ2). We also establish that this dimension tends to 4/3 (which is the dimension of the set of singular two-dimensional vectors) when μ tends to 1/2. These results improve upon previous estimates of R. Baker, joint work of the first author with M. Laurent, and unpublished work of M. Laurent. Moreover, we prove a lower bound for the packing dimension, which appears to be strictly greater than the Hausdorff dimension for μ ⩾ 0.565. . . .

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2018 

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Footnotes

Partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 1600476.

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