V. V. Aseev, A. V. Tetenov, “On the self-similar Jordan arcs admitting structure parametrization”, Sibirsk. Mat. Zh., 2005, Volume 46, Number 4,Pages <nobr>733

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On the self-similar Jordan arcs admitting structure parametrization

V. V. Aseev^a, A. V. Tetenov^b

^a Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
^b Gorno-Altaisk State University

Abstract: We study the attractors $\gamma$ of a finite system $\mathscr{S}$ of contraction similarities $S_j$ $(j=1,\dots,m)$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ which are Jordan arcs. We prove that if a system $\mathscr{S}$ possesses a structure parametrization $(\mathscr{T},\varphi)$ and $\mathscr{F}(\mathscr{T})$ is the associated family of $\mathscr{T}$ then we have one of the following cases:
1. The identity mapping $\operatorname{Id}$ does not belong to the closure of $\mathscr{F}(\mathscr{T})$. Then $\mathscr{S}$ (if properly rearranged) is a Jordan zipper.
2. The identity mapping $\operatorname{Id}$ is a limit point of $\mathscr{F}(\mathscr{T})$. Then the arc $\gamma$ is a straight line segment.
3. The identity mapping $\operatorname{Id}$ is an isolated point of $\overline{\mathscr{F}(\mathscr{T})}$.
We construct an example of a self-similar Jordan curve which implements the third case.

Keywords: attractor, self-similar fractal, Jordan arc, Hausdorff measure, Hausdorff dimension, similarity dimension.

UDC: 517.54

Received: 04.02.2004