Furstenberg sets for a fractal set of directions

TL;DR

This paper investigates the Hausdorff dimension of Furstenberg sets with respect to the set of directions, establishing new lower bounds and extending results to the endpoint case where =0.

Contribution

The authors derive new dimension estimates for Furstenberg sets considering a broad class of measures and extend known results to the case =0.

Findings

Dimension bound: (E)  max{+eta/2, 2+eta -1} for E  F_{}

Extension of results to the endpoint case =0

Generalized estimates for Hausdorff measures of Furstenberg sets

Abstract

In this note we study the behavior of the size of Furstenberg sets with respect to the size of the set of directions defining it. For any pair $\alpha,\beta\in(0,1]$, we will say that a set $E\subset \R^2$ is an $F_{\alpha\beta}$-set if there is a subset $L$ of the unit circle of Hausdorff dimension at least $\beta$ and, for each direction $e$ in $L$, there is a line segment $\ell_e$ in the direction of $e$ such that the Hausdorff dimension of the set $E\cap\ell_e$ is equal or greater than $\alpha$. The problem is considered in the wider scenario of generalized Hausdorff measures, giving estimates on the appropriate dimension functions for each class of Furstenberg sets. As a corollary of our main results, we obtain that $\dim(E)\ge\max\left\{\alpha+\frac{\beta}{2} ; 2\alpha+\beta -1\right\}$ for any $E\in F_{\alpha\beta}$. In particular we are able to extend previously known results to the ``endpoint'' $\alpha=0$ case.