The Hausdorff measure of a Sierpinski carpet

The exact value of the Hausdorff measure of a Sierpinski carpet has been obtained. Project partially supported by the Science Foundation of Guangdong Province.     

The correlation dimension of the Sierpinski carpet

We compute the correlation dimension of a measure defined on a general Sierpinski carpet. We relate this function to a free energy function associated to a partition composed of ‘nearly squares’ and well fitted to the planar Cantor set. Actually, we prove that these functions are real analytic on , are strictly increasing and are strictly concave (respectively linear in the degenerate case). This is an example of a two-dimensional dynamical system contracting in the two directions with different ratios. We first study measures of Gibbsian type before generalizing to Markovian measures.     

Local times for Brownian motion on the Sierpinski carpet

Summary Jointly continuous local times are constructed for Brownian motion on the Sierpinski carpet. A consequence is that the Brownian motion hits points. The method used is to analyze a sequence of eigenvalue problems.Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS 87-01073     

Monotonicity and phase diagram for multirange percolation on oriented trees

We consider Bernoulli bond percolation on oriented regular trees, where besides the usual short bonds, all bonds of a certain length are added. Independently, short bonds are open with probability p and long bonds are open with probability q. We study properties of the critical curve which delimits the set of pairs (p,q) for which there are almost surely no infinite paths. We also show that this curve decreases with respect to the length of the long bonds.     

Transition densities for Brownian motion on the Sierpinski carpet

Summary Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the transition densitiesp(t, x, y) of Brownian motion on the Sierpinski carpet. These are of the same form as those which hold for the Sierpinski gasket. In addition, the joint continuity ofp(t, x, y) is proved, the existence of the spectral dimension is established, and the Einstein relation, connecting the spectral dimension, the Hausdorff dimension and the resistance exponent, is shown to hold.Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 88-22053     

Bounds of the Hausdorff Measure of Sierpinski carpet

By means of the idea of [2]（Jia Baoguo,J.Math.Anal.Appl.In press） and the self.similarity of Sierpinski carpet, we obtain the lower and upper bounds of the Hausdorff Measure of Sierpinski carpet, which can approach the Hausdorff Measure of Sierpinski carpet infinitely.     

Intersection of the Sierpinski carpet with its rational translate

Motivated by Mandelbrot’s idea of referring to lacunarity of Cantor sets in terms of departure from translation invariance, Nekka and Li studied the properties of these translation sets and showed how they can be used for a classification purpose. In this paper, we pursue this study on the Sierpinski carpet with its rational translate. We also get the fractal structure of intersection I(x, y) of the Sierpinski carpet with its translate. We find that the packing measure of these sets forms a discrete spectrum whose non-zero values come only from shifting numbers with a finite triadic expansion. Concretely, when x and y have a finite triadic expansion, a very brief calculation formula of the measure is given.     

A phase transition for the metric distortion of percolation on the hypercube

Let H _n be the hypercube {0, 1} ⁿ , and denote by H _n,p Bernoulli bond percolation on H _n , with parameter p = n ^−α . It is shown that at α = 1/2 there is a phase transition for the metric distortion between H _n and H _n,p . For α < 1/2, the giant component of H _n,p is likely to be quasi-isometric to H _n with constant distortion (depending only on α). For 1/2 < α < 1 the minimal distortion tends to infinity as a power of n. We argue that the phase 1/2 < α < 1 is an analogue of the non-uniqueness phase appearing in percolation on non-amenable graphs.     

A phase transition in the evolution of bootstrap percolation processes on preferential attachment graphs

The theme of this paper is the analysis of bootstrap percolation processes on random graphs generated by preferential attachment. This is a class of infection processes where vertices have two states: they are either infected or susceptible. At each round every susceptible vertex which has at least infected neighbours becomes infected and remains so forever. Assume that initially vertices are randomly infected, where is the total number of vertices of the graph. Suppose also that , where is the average degree. We determine a critical function such that when , complete infection occurs with high probability as , but when , then with high probability the process evolves only for a bounded number of rounds and the final set of infected vertices is asymptotically equal to .     

Merging percolation on Zd and classical random graphs: Phase transition

We study a random graph model which is a superposition of bond percolation on Z^d with parameter p, and a classical random graph G(n,c/n). We show that this model, being a homogeneous random graph, has a natural relation to the so‐called “rank 1 case” of inhomogeneous random graphs. This allows us to use the newly developed theory of inhomogeneous random graphs to describe the phase diagram on the set of parameters c ≥ 0 and 0 ≤ p < p_c, where p_c = p_c(d) is the critical probability for the bond percolation on Z^d. The phase transition is of second order as in the classical random graph. We find the scaled size of the largest connected component in the supercritical regime. We also provide a sharp upper bound for the largest connected component in the subcritical regime. The latter is a new result for inhomogeneous random graphs with unbounded kernels. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2010     

Goal‐oriented error estimation for Cahn–Hilliard models of binary phase transition

A posteriori estimates of errors in quantities of interest are developed for the nonlinear system of evolution equations embodied in the Cahn–Hilliard model of binary phase transition. These involve the analysis of wellposedness of dual backward‐in‐time problems and the calculation of residuals. Mixed finite element approximations are developed and used to deliver numerical solutions of representative problems in one‐ and two‐dimensional domains. Estimated errors are shown to be quite accurate in these numerical examples. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2010     

Uniqueness of infinite rigid components in percolation models: the case of nonplanar lattices

We prove uniqueness of the infinite rigid component for standard bond percolation on periodic lattices in d-dimensional Euclidean space for arbitrary d, and more generally when the lattice is a quasi-transitive and amenable graph. Our approach to uniqueness of the infinite rigid component improves earlier ones, that were confined to planar settings.Research supported by the Swedish Research Council Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 60K35, 82B43     

Improved upper bounds for the critical probability of oriented percolation in two dimensions

We refine the method of our previous paper [2] which gave upper bounds for the critical probability in two-dimensional oriented percolation. We use our refinement to show that © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Sharpness versus robustness of the percolation transition in 2d contact processes

We study versions of the contact process with three states, and with infections occurring at a rate depending on the overall infection density. Motivated by a model described in Kéfi et al. (2007) for vegetation patterns in arid landscapes, we focus on percolation under invariant measures of such processes. We prove that the percolation transition is sharp (for one of our models this requires a reasonable assumption). This is shown to contradict a form of ‘robust critical behaviour’ with power law cluster size distribution for a range of parameter values, as suggested in Kéfi et al. (2007).     

Non-existence of infinitesimally invariant measures on loop groups

Let G be a compact Lie group, L(G) the associated loop group, ω the canonical symplectic form on L(G). Set H the Hamiltonian function for which the associated ω-Hamiltonian vector field is the infinitesimal rotation. Then H generates a canonical semi-definite Riemannian structure on L(G), which induces a Riemannian structure on the free loop groupL(G)/G=L₀(G). This metric corresponds to the Sobolev norm H¹. Using orthonormal frame methodology the positivity and finiteness of the Ricci curvature of L₀(G) is proved. By studying the dissipation towards high modes of a unitary group valued SDE it is proved that the loop group does not have any infinitesimally invariant measure.     

A Note on Hausdorff Measures of Sierpinski Carpets

In this paper, regular Sierpinski carpet as a new concept is given. The exact value of Hausdorff measure of the regular Sierpinski carpet and the range of Hausdorff measures for all forms of generalized Sierpinski carpets is also obtained. For any one of the generalized Sierpinski carpets we show that there exists a regular carpet such that they have the same Hausdorff measures.