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Geometry of canonical self-similar tilings
We give several different geometric characterizations of the situation in
which the parallel set of a self-similar set can be described
by the inner -parallel set of the associated
canonical tiling , in the sense of \cite{SST}. For example,
if and only if the boundary of the
convex hull of is a subset of , or if the boundary of , the
unbounded portion of the complement of , is the boundary of a convex set. In
the characterized situation, the tiling allows one to obtain a tube formula for
, i.e., an expression for the volume of as a function of
. On the way, we clarify some geometric properties of canonical
tilings.
Motivated by the search for tube formulas, we give a generalization of the
tiling construction which applies to all self-affine sets having empty
interior and satisfying the open set condition. We also characterize the
relation between the parallel sets of and these tilings.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figure
Lattice-type self-similar sets with pluriphase generators fail to be Minkowski measurable
A long-standing conjecture of Lapidus claims that under certain conditions,
self-similar fractal sets fail to be Minkowski measurable if and only if they
are of lattice type. The theorem was established for fractal subsets of
by Falconer, Lapidus and v.~Frankenhuijsen, and the forward
direction was shown for fractal subsets of , , by
Gatzouras. Since then, much effort has been made to prove the converse. In this
paper, we prove a partial converse by means of renewal theory. Our proof allows
us to recover several previous results in this regard, but is much shorter and
extends to a more general setting; several technical conditions appearing in
previous versions of this result have now been removed.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figure
Pointwise tube formulas for fractal sprays and self-similar tilings with arbitrary generators
In a previous paper by the first two authors, a tube formula for fractal
sprays was obtained which also applies to a certain class of self-similar
fractals. The proof of this formula uses distributional techniques and requires
fairly strong conditions on the geometry of the tiling (specifically, the inner
tube formula for each generator of the fractal spray is required to be
polynomial). Now we extend and strengthen the tube formula by removing the
conditions on the geometry of the generators, and also by giving a proof which
holds pointwise, rather than distributionally.
Hence, our results for fractal sprays extend to higher dimensions the
pointwise tube formula for (1-dimensional) fractal strings obtained earlier by
Lapidus and van Frankenhuijsen.
Our pointwise tube formulas are expressed as a sum of the residues of the
"tubular zeta function" of the fractal spray in . This sum ranges
over the complex dimensions of the spray, that is, over the poles of the
geometric zeta function of the underlying fractal string and the integers
. The resulting "fractal tube formulas" are applied to the important
special case of self-similar tilings, but are also illustrated in other
geometrically natural situations. Our tube formulas may also be seen as fractal
analogues of the classical Steiner formula.Comment: 43 pages, 13 figures. To appear: Advances in Mathematic
Minkowski measurability results for self-similar tilings and fractals with monophase generators
In a previous paper [arXiv:1006.3807], the authors obtained tube formulas for
certain fractals under rather general conditions. Based on these formulas, we
give here a characterization of Minkowski measurability of a certain class of
self-similar tilings and self-similar sets. Under appropriate hypotheses,
self-similar tilings with simple generators (more precisely, monophase
generators) are shown to be Minkowski measurable if and only if the associated
scaling zeta function is of nonlattice type. Under a natural geometric
condition on the tiling, the result is transferred to the associated
self-similar set (i.e., the fractal itself). Also, the latter is shown to be
Minkowski measurable if and only if the associated scaling zeta function is of
nonlattice type.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figur
Early English Books Online and the Text Creation Partnership: Applications, Innovations, and Alternatives
Early English Books Online or EEBO is a database of more than 140,000 images of rare and early books used by scholars of history and literature for decades. EEBO is a longstanding microfilm product turned image database with established use patterns. EEBO-TCP, a set of 60,000 manually transcribed documents from EEBO, has enabled unprecedented opportunities for large-scale analysis of surviving English print. In this exploratory study, I examine the practices of teaching and research with EEBO and EEBO-TCP in American universities through findings derived from the qualitative coded insights of a focus group of professors and librarians. The focus group discussed teaching methodologies, alternative digital archives, and organizational techniques scholars and librarians have utilized in working with a EEBO and EEBO-TCP. This study is intended to provoke further research into the complex technical mediations underpinning digitization of early printed books and identify areas where academic libraries can facilitate the research process.Master of Science in Information Scienc
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