Positive-measure and recurrence-coefficient conjecture for Cantor-type sets

Let γ=(γk)k=1\gamma=(\gamma_k)_{k=1}^\infty be the parameter sequence defining K(γ)K(\gamma), set εk:=14γk\varepsilon_k:=1-4\gamma_k for kNk\in\mathbb{N}, and let (an)n=1(a_n)_{n=1}^\infty be the recurrence coefficients for μK(γ)\mu_{K(\gamma)}. Positive-measure conjecture.

K(γ) has positive Lebesgue measures=1εs<lim infnan>0.K(\gamma)\text{ has positive Lebesgue measure} \quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad \sum_{s=1}^\infty\sqrt{\varepsilon_s}<\infty \quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad \liminf_{n\rightarrow\infty}a_n>0.

The conjecture would characterize positive Lebesgue measure simultaneously through the construction parameters and the asymptotics of the Jacobi recurrence coefficients. The paper presents it as an inference from numerical experiments and does not establish the equivalences.

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Gökalp Alpan, Alexander Goncharov and Ahmet Nihat Şimşek, “Asymptotic properties of Jacobi matrices for a family of fractal measures”, arXiv:1603.02312 (2016).

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