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Dimension prints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

C. A. Rogers
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Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WCIE 6BT
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The Hausdorff dimension has been used for many years for assessing the sizes of sets in Euclidean and other metric spaces, see, for example, [1,2,5,6,8,10]. However, different sets with the same Hausdorff dimension may have very different characteristics, for example, a straight line segment in ℝ2 and the Cartesian product in ℝ2 of two suitably chosen Cantor sets in ℝ will both have Hausdorff dimension 1. In this paper we develop a measure-theoretic method of distinguishing between the sets of such pairs.

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Copyright © University College London 1988

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