$HD(M\setminus L)<0.986927$

Abstract

We show that several portions of the complement $M\setminus L$ of the Lagrange spectrum $L$ in the Markov spectrum $M$ can be seen as subsets of arithmetic sums of Cantor sets with controlled Hausdorff dimensions. In particular, we prove that $M\setminus L$ has Hausdorff dimension strictly smaller than one.

16 pages, no figures. This preprint became a portion of the latest version of arXiv:1803.01230 and, for this reason, we are withdrawing it