Extending Borel’s conjecture from measure to dimension
We study subsets <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper A"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> of <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="double-struck upper R Superscript upper N"> <mml:semantics> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mi mathvariant="double-struck">R</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:msup> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\mathbb {R}}^N</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> , gauge functions <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="f"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> and their associated Hausdorff measures <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper H Superscript f"> <mml:semantics> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> </mml:msup> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">H^f</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> . A set <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper A subset-of-or-equal-to double-struck upper R Superscript upper N"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:mo> ⊆ </mml:mo> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mi mathvariant="double-struck">R</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:msup> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A\subseteq {\mathbb {R}}^N</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> has strong dimension <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="f"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> if and only if <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper H Superscript f Baseline greater-than 0"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> </mml:msup> <mml:mo>></mml:mo> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">H^f>0</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> and for all gauge functions <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="h"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>h</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">h</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> of higher order than <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="f"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> , <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper H Superscript h Baseline left-parenthesis upper A right-parenthesis equals 0"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mi>h</mml:mi> </mml:msup> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">H^h(A)=0</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> . We show that it is consistent with the axioms of set theory that if <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper A"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> has strong dimension <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="f"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> then <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper A"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">A</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> is <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="sigma"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi> σ </mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\sigma</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> -finite for <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper H Superscript f"> <mml:semantics> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> </mml:msup> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">H^f</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> .
Authors
- Theodore A. Slaman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1719-2630)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Communications of the American Mathematical Society
- Published
- 2026-04-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1090/cams/65
- Primary Topic
- Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00