Fractal sets in analysis, spring 2015
Fractal sets in analysis, spring 2015
Lecturer
Scope
10 sp.
Type
Advanced studies
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of measure and integration theory such as the courses "Mitta ja integraali" and "Reaalianalyysi I". "Reaalianalyysi II" and basic knowledge of Fourier analysis are useful but not necessary.
Lectures
Weeks 3-9 and 11-20, Wednesday 14-16 in room B322 and Thursday 14-16 in room C122.
There will be no lecture nor exercise session on Wednesday, April 22 and no lecture on Thursday, April 23. The session for exercise 9 will be on Wednesday, April 29. There will be no lecture on Thursday, April 30. The last events of the course will be
Wednesday, April 29, Anne Isabel Gaudreau: Nikodym sets, and the exercise session,
Wednesday, May 6, PM: Removable sets, and the exercise session,
Thursday, May 7, Jesse Jääsaari: Number theoretic sets
Wednesday, May 13: Francesca Corni: Cookie-cutters
Easter Holiday 2.-8.4.
Course description
Fractal sets in this course mean both very general (closed or Borel) sets in Euclidean spaces and special fractal sets such as various Cantor-type sets and graphs of continuous nowhere differentiable functions. They play a significant role in mathematical analysis and also in other parts of mathematics and its applications. Constructions and properties, mainly geometric measure theoretic ones, of such sets will be studied. Possible topics for the course include
Hausdorff dimension, Frostman's lemma, Riesz potentials and capacities, and Fourier transform
Minkowski and packing dimensions
Hausdorff dimension, orthogonal projections, and distance sets
Self-similar and self-affine sets
Graphs of continuous functions (e.g., Weierstrass nowhere differentiable function)
Brownian motion
Cantor sets of uniqueness and multiplicity for Fourier series
Besicovitch (or Kakeya) sets and Fourier transform
Peter Jones's version of the travelling salesman theorem
Removable sets for bounded analytic functions
Bibliography
C. J. Bishop and Y. Peres, Fractal Sets in Probability and Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
K. J. Falconer, Geometry of Fractal Sets, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
P. Mattila, Geometry of Sets and Measures in Euclidean Spaces, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
P. Mattila, Fourier Analysis and Hausdorff dimension, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Exercises
Laura Venieri will conduct exercise sessions on Wednesdays 16 - 18 in B322.
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