Boundedness and convergence of singular integrals on fractal type sets

The topic of this dissertation lies in the intersection of harmonic analysis and fractal geometry. We particulary consider singular integrals in Euclidean spaces with respect to general measures, and we study how the geometric structure of the measures affects certain analytic properties of the operators. The thesis consists of three research articles and an overview. In the first article we construct singular integral operators on lower dimensional Sierpinski gaskets associated with homogeneous Calderón-Zygmund kernels. While these operators are bounded their principal values fail to exist almost everywhere. Conformal iterated function systems generate a broad range of fractal sets. In the second article we prove that many of these limit sets are porous in a very strong sense, by showing that they contain holes spread in every direction. In the following we connect these results with singular integrals. We exploit the fractal structure of these limit sets, in order to establish that singular integrals associated with very general kernels converge weakly. Boundedness questions consist a central topic of investigation in the theory of singular integrals. In the third article we study singular integrals of different measures. We prove a very general boundedness result in the case where the two underlying measures are separated by a Lipshitz graph. As a consequence we show that a certain weak convergence holds for a large class of singular integrals.Ei saatavill

Thermodynamical Formalism

Thermodynamical formalism is a relatively recent area of pure mathematics owing a lot to some classical notions of thermodynamics. On this thesis we state and prove some of the main results in the area of thermodynamical formalism. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory. Some of the main theorems are proved and there is also a quite thorough study of the topology that arises in Borel probability measure spaces. In the second chapter we introduce the notions of topological pressure and measure theoretic entropy and we state and prove two very important theorems, Shannon-McMillan-Breiman theorem and the Variational Principle. Distance expanding maps and their connection with the calculation of topological pressure cover the third chapter. The fourth chapter introduces Gibbs states and the very important Perron-Frobenius Operator. The fifth chapter establishes the connection between pressure and geometry. Topological pressure is used in the calculation of Hausdorff dimensions. Finally the sixth chapter introduces the notion of conformal measures

Boundedness of singular integrals on C^{1,alpha} intrinsic graphs in the Heisenberg group

We study singular integral operators induced by 3-dimensional Calderon-Zygmund kernels in the Heisenberg group. We show that if such an operator is L (2) bounded on vertical planes, with uniform constants, then it is also L-2 bounded on all intrinsic graphs of compactly supported C-1,C-alpha functions over vertical planes. In particular, the result applies to the operator R, induced by the kernel K(z) = del(H )parallel to z parallel to(-2), z is an element of H \ {0}, the horizontal gradient of the fundamental solution of the sub-Laplacian. The L-2 boundedness of R, is connected with the question of removability for Lipschitz harmonic functions. As a corollary of our result, we infer that the intrinsic graphs mentioned above are non-removable. Apart from subsets of vertical planes, these are the first known examples of non-removable sets with positive and locally finite 3-dimensional measure. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Peer reviewe

The strong geometric lemma in the Heisenberg group

We prove that in the first Heisenberg group, unlike Euclidean spaces and higher dimensional Heisenberg groups, the best possible exponent for the strong geometric lemma for intrinsic Lipschitz graphs is $4$ instead of $2$. Combined with earlier work from arXiv:2004.11447 and arXiv:2207.03013, our result completes the proof of the strong geometric lemma in Heisenberg groups. One key tool in our proof, and possibly of independent interest, is a suitable refinement of the foliated coronizations which first appeared in arXiv:2004.12522.Comment: 29 page

INTRINSIC LIPSCHITZ GRAPHS AND VERTICAL beta-NUMBERS IN THE HEISENBERG GROUP

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and study some basic concepts of quantitative rectifiability in the first Heisenberg group H. In particular, we aim to demonstrate that new phenomena arise compared to the Euclidean theory, founded by G. David and S. Semmes in the 1990s. The theory in H has an apparent connection to certain nonlinear PDEs, which do not play a role with similar questions in R-3. Our main object of study are the intrinsic Lipschitz graphs in H, introduced by B. Franchi, R. Serapioni, and F. Serra Cassano in 2006. We claim that these 3-dimensional sets in H, if any, deserve to be called quantitatively 3-rectifiable. Our main result is that the intrinsic Lipschitz graphs satisfy a weak geometric lemma with respect to vertical beta-numbers. Conversely, extending a result of David and Semmes from R-n, we prove that a 3-Ahlfors-David regular subset in H, which satisfies the weak geometric lemma and has big vertical projections, necessarily has big pieces of intrinsic Lipschitz graphs.Peer reviewe