Some Novel Types of Fractal Geometry

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Pub. Date: 2001-03-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This book deals with fractal geometries that have features similar to ones of ordinary Euclidean spaces, while at the same time being quite different from Euclidean spaces.. A basic example of this feature considered is the presence of Sobolev or Poincaré inequalities, concerning the relationship between the average behavior of a function and the average behavior of its small-scale oscillations. Remarkable results in the last few years through Bourdon-Pajot and Laakso have shown that there is much more in the way of geometries like this than have been realized, only examples related to nilpotent Lie groups and Carnot metrics were known previously. On the other had, 'typical' fractals that might be seen in pictures do not have these same kinds of features. This text examines these topics in detail and will interest graduate students as well as researchers in mathematics and various aspects of geometry and analysis.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(11)
Some aspects of ``calculus'' on Euclidean spaces
1(2)
General metric spaces
3(5)
The present monograph
8(1)
Another perspective: curve families in metric spaces
8(4)
Some background material
12(26)
Doubling spaces
12(2)
Ahlfors-regular spaces
14(1)
Poincare inequalities
15(3)
Comparisons and examples
18(16)
BPI spaces and BPI equivalence
34(4)
A few basic topics
38(13)
Only countably many?
38(4)
A universal argument
42(3)
Rectifiability
45(4)
A slightly dumb case: dimensions <1
49(2)
Deformations
51(25)
Some general notions and examples
51(2)
Doubling measures
53(10)
Returning to general themes
63(3)
Another view of the previous sections
66(10)
Mappings between spaces
76(17)
Questions, conjectures, and former conjectures
76(4)
Regular mappings
80(2)
Weak tangents
82(3)
Finding ``regular'' behavior in Lipschitz mappings
85(4)
``Decent calculus'' and regular mappings
89(4)
Some more general topics
93(19)
A class of spaces, as from Laakso
93(2)
Extremality
95(4)
Looking at sets inside of spaces with ``decent calculus''
99(4)
Minimality and compression
103(6)
Embeddings
109(3)
A class of constructions to consider
112(32)
The Heisenberg groups
112(7)
The Heisenberg fibrations
119(7)
Questions about finding ``fibrations'' with interesting structure
126(3)
(s, t)-Regular mappings
129(2)
Some properties of (s, t)-regular mappings
131(8)
Special structure in particular situations
139(2)
(s, t)-Regular mappings and pushing geometry forward
141(3)
Geometric structures and some topological configurations
144(10)
Appendix
A Some side comments
149(5)
A.1 Differentiability and affine approximations
149(2)
A.2 BPI spaces
151(1)
A.3 Carnot spaces, and functions with values in a Carnot group
151(3)
References 154(9)
Index 163

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