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Uta Freiberg

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The regular n-flake dust in $\mathbb{R}^2$ is not Minkowski measurable

A long-standing conjecture of Lapidus asserts that under certain conditions a self-similar fractal set is not Minkowski measurable if and only if it is of lattice-type. For self-similar sets in $\mathbb{R}$, the Lapidus conjecture has been confirmed. However, in higher dimensions, it remains unclear whether all lattice-type self-similar sets are not Minkowski measurable. This work presents families of lattice-type subsets in $\mathbb{R}^2$ that are not Minkowski measurable, hence providing further support for the conjecture.

math.MG

A family of non Minkowski measurable fractals in $\mathbb{R}^2$

A long-standing conjecture of Lapidus asserts that, under certain conditions, a self-similar fractal set is not Minkowski measurable if and only if it is of lattice-type. For self-similar sets in $\mathbb{R}$, the Lapidus conjecture has been confirmed. However, in higher dimensions, it remains unclear whether all lattice-type self-similar sets are not Minkowski measurable. This work presents a family of lattice-type subsets in $\mathbb{R}^2$ that are not Minkowski measurable, hence providing further support for the conjecture. Furthermore, an argument is presented to illustrate why these sets are not covered by previous results.

math.MG

The Einstein Relation on Metric Measure Spaces

This note is based on F. Burghart's master thesis at Stuttgart university from July 2018, supervised by Prof. Freiberg. We review the Einstein relation, which connects the Hausdorff, local walk and spectral dimensions on a space, in the abstract setting of a metric measure space equipped with a suitable operator. This requires some twists compared to the usual definitions from fractal geometry. The main result establishes the invariance of the three involved notions of fractal dimension under bi-Lipschitz continuous isomorphisms between mm-spaces and explains, more generally, how the transport of the analytic and stochastic structure behind the Einstein relation works. While any homeomorphism suffices for this transport of structure, non-Lipschitz maps distort the Hausdorff and the local walk dimension in different ways. To illustrate this, we take a look at Hölder regular transformations and how they influence the local walk dimension and describe the Einstein relation on graphs of fractional Brownian motions. We conclude by giving a short list of further questions that may help building a general theory of the Einstein relation.

math.FA

Mathematics of Family Planning in Talmud

Motivated by the commitments from the Talmud in Judaism, we consider the family planning rules which require a couple to get children till certain numbers of boys and girls are reached. For example, the rabbinical school of Beit Hillel says that one boy and one girl are necessary, whereas Beit Shammai urges for two boys. Surprisingly enough, although the corresponding average family sizes differ in both cases, the gender ratios remain constant. We show more that for any family planning rule the gender ratio is equal to the birth odds. The proof of this result is given by using different mathematical techniques, such as induction principle, Doob's optional-stopping theorem, and brute-force. We conclude that, despite possible asymmetries in the religiously motivated family planning rules, they discriminate neither boys nor girls.

math.HO

Internal aggregation models with multiple sources and obstacle problems on Sierpinski gaskets

We consider the doubly infinite Sierpinski gasket graph $SG_0$, rescale it by factor $2^{-n}$, and on the rescaled graphs $SG_n=2^{-n}SG_0$, for every $n\in \mathbb{N}$, we investigate the limit shape of three aggregation models with initial configuration $σ_n$ of particles supported on multiple vertices. The models under consideration are: divisible sandpile in which the excess mass is distributed among the vertices until each vertex is stable and has mass less or equal to one, internal DLA in which particles do random walks until finding an empty site, and rotor aggregation in which particles perform deterministic counterparts of random walks until finding an empty site. We denote by $SG=cl(\cup_{n=0}^{\infty} SG_n)$ the infinite Sierpinski gasket, which is a closed subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$, for which $SG_n$ represents the level-n approximating graph, and we consider a continuous function $σ:SG\to\mathbb{N}$. For $σ$ we solve the obstacle problem and we describe the noncoincidence set $D\subset SG$ as the solution of a free boundary problem on the fractal $SG$. If the discrete particle configurations $σ_n$ on the approximating graphs $SG_n$ converge pointwise to the continuous function $σ$ on the limit set $SG$, we prove that, as $n\to\infty$, the scaling limits of the three aforementioned models on $SG_n$ starting with initial particle configuration $σ_n$ converge to the deterministic solution $D$ of the free boundary problem on the limit set $SG\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. For $D$ we also investigate boundary regularity properties.

math.PR

Martin boundary theory on inhomogenous fractals

We want to consider fractals generated by a probabilistic iterated function scheme with open set condition and we want to interpret the probabilities as weights for every part of the fractal. In the homogenous case, where the weights are not taken into account, Denker and Sato introduced in 2001 a Markov chain on the word space and proved, that the Martin boundary is homeomorphic to the fractal set. Our aim is to redefine the transition probability with respect to the weights and to calculate the Martin boundary. As we will see, the inhomogenous Martin boundary coincides with the homogenous case.

math.PR

Eigenvalue Approximation for Krein-Feller-Operators

We study the limiting behavior of the eigenvalues of Krein-Feller-Operators with respect to weakly convergent probability measures. Therefore, we give a representation of the eigenvalues as zeros of measure theoretic sine functions. Further, we make a proposition about the limiting behavior of the previously determined eigenfunctions. With the main results we finally determine the speed of convergence of eigenvalues and -functions for sequences which converge to invariant measures on the Cantor set.

math.SP

Random graphs and their subgraphs

Random graphs are more and more used for modeling real world networks such as evolutionary networks of proteins. For this purpose we look at two different models and analyze how properties like connectedness and degree distributions are inherited by differently constructed subgraphs. We also give a formula for the variance of the degrees of fixed nodes in the preferential attachment model and additionally draw a connection between weighted graphs and electrical networks.

math.PR

Completely Symmetric Resistance Forms on the Stretched Sierpinski Gasket

The stretched Sierpinski gasket, SSG for short, is the space obtained by replacing every branching point of the Sierpinski gasket by an interval. It has also been called "deformed Sierpinski gasket" or "Hanoi attractor". As a result, it is the closure of a countable union of intervals and one might expect that a diffusion on SSG is essentially a kind of gluing of the Brownian motions on the intervals. In fact, there have been several works in this direction. There still remains, however, "reminiscence" of the Sierpinski gasket in the geometric structure of SSG and the same should therefore be expected for diffusions. This paper shows that this is the case. In this work, we identify all the completely symmetric resistance forms on SSG. A completely symmetric resistance form is a resistance form whose restriction to every contractive copy of SSG in itself is invariant under all geometrical symmetries of the copy, which constitute the symmetry group of the triangle. We prove that completely symmetric resistance forms on SSG can be sums of the Dirichlet integrals on the intervals with some particular weights, or a linear combination of a resistance form of the former kind and the standard resistance form on the Sierpinski gasket.

math.FA

Application of Smirnov Words to Waiting Time Distributions of Runs

Consider infinite random words over a finite alphabet where the letters occur as an i.i.d. sequence according to some arbitrary distribution on the alphabet. The expectation and the variance of the waiting time for the first completed $h$-run of any letter (i.e., first occurrence of $h$ subsequential equal letters) is computed. The expected waiting time for the completion of $h$-runs of $j$ arbitrary distinct letters is also given.

math.CO

Weyl asymptotics for Hanoi attractors

The asymptotic behaviour of the eigenvalue counting function of Laplacians on Hanoi attractors is determined. To this end, Dirichlet and resistance forms are constructed. Due to the non self-similarity of these sets, the classical construction of the Laplacian for p.c.f. self-similar fractals has to be modified by combining discrete and quantum graphs methods.

math.SP

Dirichlet forms for singular diffusion in higher dimensions

We describe singular diffusion in bounded subsets $Ω$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ by form methods and characterize the associated operator. We also prove positivity and contractivity of the corresponding semigroup. This results in a description of a stochastic process moving according to classical diffusion in one part of $Ω$, where jumps are allowed through the rest of $Ω$.

math.FA

Minkowski Content and local Minkowski Content for a class of self-conformal sets

We investigate (local) Minkowski measurability of $\mathcal C^{1+α}$ images of self-similar sets. We show that (local) Minkowski measurability of a self-similar set $K$ implies (local) Minkowski measurability of its image $F$ and provide an explicit formula for the (local) Minkowski content of $F$ in this case. A counterexample is presented which shows that the converse is not necessarily true. That is, $F$ can be Minkowski measurable although $K$ is not. However, we obtain that an average version of the (local) Minkowski content of both $K$ and $F$ always exists and also provide an explicit formula for the relation between the (local) average Minkowski contents of $K$ and $F$.

math.DS