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Strong and weak duality principles for fractal dimension in Euclidean space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Colleen D. Cutler
Colleen D. Cutler
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Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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Abstract

Tricot [27] provided apparently dual representations of the Hausdorff and packing dimensions of any analytic subset of Euclidean d-space in terms of, respectively, the lower and upper pointwise dimension maps of the finite Borel measures on ℝd. In this paper we show that Tricot's two representations, while similar in appearance, are in fact not duals of each other, but rather the duals of two other ‘missing’ representations. The key to obtaining these missing representations lies in extended Frostman and antiFrostman lemmas, both of which we develop in this paper. This leads to the formulation of two distinct characterizations of dim (A) and Dim (A), one which we call the weak duality principle and the other the strong duality principle. In particular, the strong duality principle is concerned with the existence, for each analytic set A, of measures on A that are (almost) of the same exact dimension (Hausdorff or packing) as A. The connection with Rényi (or information) dimension and a variational principle of Cutler and Olsen[12] is also established.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 118 , Issue 3 , November 1995 , pp. 393 - 410
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1995

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