Buffon needle lands in <i>ϵ</i>-neighborhood of a 1-dimensional Sierpinski Gasket with probability at most $ {|\mathrm{log}\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}ϵ|}^{-c}$

Matthew Bond; Alexander Volberg

doi:10.1016/j.crma.2010.04.006

Harmonic Analysis/Analytic Geometry

Buffon needle lands in ϵ-neighborhood of a 1-dimensional Sierpinski Gasket with probability at most

{| \log ϵ |}^{- c}

Presented by: Gilles Pisier

Matthew Bond ¹; Alexander Volberg ^1,²

¹ Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
² School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK

Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 348 (2010) no. 11-12, pp. 653-656

Abstract (Original language)
Résumé

In recent years, relatively sharp quantitative results in the spirit of the Besicovitch projection theorem have been obtained for self-similar sets by studying the $L^{p}$ norms of the “projection multiplicity” functions, $f_{θ}$ , where $f_{θ} (x)$ is the number of connected components of the partial fractal set that orthogonally project in the θ direction to cover x. In Nazarov et al. (2008) [4], it was shown that n-th partial 4-corner Cantor set with self-similar scaling factor 1/4 decays in Favard length at least as fast as $\frac{C}{n^{p}}$ , for $p < 1 / 6$ . In Bond and Volberg (2009) [1], this same estimate was proved for the 1-dimensional Sierpinski gasket for some $p > 0$ . A few observations were needed to adapt the approach of Nazarov et al. (2008) [4] to the gasket: we sketch them here. We also formulate a result about all self-similar sets of dimension 1.

On donne une estimation de la probabilité pour que l'aiguille de Buffon soit ϵ-proche d'un ensemble de Cantor–Sierpinski. On trouve une majoration de cette probabilité en ${| \log ϵ |}^{- c}$ , où c est une constante strictement positive, cette constante n'est pas connue de mannière précise, mais l'estimation est optimale.

Received: 2009-12-12
Accepted: 2010-03-12
Published online: 2010-06-01

DOI: 10.1016/j.crma.2010.04.006

Author's affiliations:

Matthew Bond ¹; Alexander Volberg ^{1, 2}

¹ Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
² School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK

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Matthew Bond; Alexander Volberg. Buffon needle lands in ϵ-neighborhood of a 1-dimensional Sierpinski Gasket with probability at most $ {|\mathrm{log}\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}ϵ|}^{-c}$. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 348 (2010) no. 11-12, pp. 653-656. doi: 10.1016/j.crma.2010.04.006

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