TY - JOUR
T1 - Schmidt's game, fractals, and numbers normal to no base
AU - Broderick, Ryan
AU - Bugeaud, Yann
AU - Fishman, Lior
AU - Kleinbock, Dmitry
AU - Weiss, Barak
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - Given b > 1 and y ∈ R/Z, we consider the set of x ∈ R such that y is not a limit point of the sequence {bnx mod 1 : n ∈ N}. Such sets are known to have full Hausdorff dimension, and in many cases have been shown to have a stronger property of being winning in the sense of Schmidt. In this paper, by utilizing Schmidt games, we prove that these sets and their bi-Lipschitz images must intersect with 'sufficiently regular' fractals K ⊂ R (that is, supporting measures μ satisfying certain decay conditions). Furthermore, the intersection has full dimension in K if μ satisfies a power law (this holds for example if K is the middle third Cantor set). Thus it follows that the set of numbers in the middle third Cantor set which are normal to no base has dimension log 2/ log 3.
AB - Given b > 1 and y ∈ R/Z, we consider the set of x ∈ R such that y is not a limit point of the sequence {bnx mod 1 : n ∈ N}. Such sets are known to have full Hausdorff dimension, and in many cases have been shown to have a stronger property of being winning in the sense of Schmidt. In this paper, by utilizing Schmidt games, we prove that these sets and their bi-Lipschitz images must intersect with 'sufficiently regular' fractals K ⊂ R (that is, supporting measures μ satisfying certain decay conditions). Furthermore, the intersection has full dimension in K if μ satisfies a power law (this holds for example if K is the middle third Cantor set). Thus it follows that the set of numbers in the middle third Cantor set which are normal to no base has dimension log 2/ log 3.
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U2 - 10.4310/mrl.2010.v17.n2.a10
DO - 10.4310/mrl.2010.v17.n2.a10
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77952078678
SN - 1073-2780
VL - 17
SP - 309
EP - 323
JO - Mathematical Research Letters
JF - Mathematical Research Letters
IS - 2
ER -