Approximation properties of -expansions II

Abstract

Let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}\in (1,2)$ be a real number. For a function $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F9}:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$, define $W_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F9})$ to be the set of $x\in \mathbb{R}$ such that for infinitely many $n\in \mathbb{N},$ there exists a sequence $(\unicode[STIX]{x1D716}_{i})_{i=1}^{n}\in \{0,1\}^{n}$ satisfying $0\leq x-\sum _{i=1}^{n}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D716}_{i}/\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}^{i})\leq \unicode[STIX]{x1D6F9}(n)$. In Baker [Approximation properties of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}$-expansions. Acta Arith. 168 (2015), 269–287], the author conjectured that for Lebesgue almost every $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}\in (1,2)$, the condition $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }2^{n}\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F9}(n)=\infty$ implies that $W_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F9})$ is of full Lebesgue measure within $[0,1/(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}-1)]$. In this paper we make a significant step towards proving this conjecture. We prove that given a sequence of positive real numbers $(\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}_{n})_{n=1}^{\infty }$ satisfying $\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}_{n}=\infty$, for Lebesgue almost every $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}\in (1.497,\ldots ,2)$, the set $W_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}_{n}\cdot 2^{-n})$ is of full Lebesgue measure within $[0,1/(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}-1)]$. We also study the case where $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }2^{n}\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F9}(n)<\infty$ in which the set $W_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F9})$ has Lebesgue measure zero. Applying the mass transference principle developed by Beresnevich and Velani in [A mass transference principle and the Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture for Hausdorff measures. Ann. of Math. (2) 164(3) (2006), 971–992], we obtain some results on the Hausdorff dimension and the Hausdorff measure of $W_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F9})$.

Analogues of Khintchine’s theorem for random attractors

“…In a series of recent papers, the first author established that for many IFSs we do observe Khintchine like behaviour, i.e. (2.1) holds for some suitable class of Ψ, see [2,3,4,5]. Related results had appeared previously in papers of Persson and Reeve [29,30], and Levesley, Salp, and Velani [25].…”

“…Khintchine's theorem is an important result in number theory which demonstrates that the Lebesgue measure of certain limsup sets defined using the rationals is determined by the convergence/divergence of naturally occurring volume sums. Inspired by this result, the first author studied fractal analogues of Khintchine's theorem where the role of the rationals is played by a natural set of points that is generated by the underlying iterated function system [2,3,4,5]. The results of [5] demonstrate that for many parameterised families of overlapping iterated function systems, we typically observe Khintchine like behaviour.…”

Intrinsic Diophantine approximation for overlapping iterated function systems

“…Remark 1. 4 The inequality (1.4) and the non-increasing assumption on g in Statement 2 are both technical assumptions and are believed to be non-optimal. Note that in Statement 3 there are no monotonicity conditions imposed on g. We expect that both of these assumptions can be removed.…”