The multifractal spectra of planar waiting sets in beta expansions

Abstract

Let $\beta >1$ be a real number. In this paper, the Hausdorff dimension of sets consisting of pairs of numbers with prescribed quantitative waiting time indicators in $\beta$-expansions are determined. More precisely, let $I$ be the unit interval $[0,1)$ and write ${\underline{R}}^{\beta }(x,y)$ and ${\overline{R}}^{\beta }(x,y)$ as the lower and upper quantitative waiting time indicators of $y$ by $x$ in $\beta$-expansions, respectively. Define the waiting set on the plane by \[E_β(a,b)=\left\{(x,y)\in I^2\colon\underline{R}^β(x,y)=a,\overline{R}^β(x,y)=b\right\}.\] where $0\le a\le b\le \infty$, then the set $E_{\beta }(a,b)$ is always of Hausdorff dimension two for any pair of numbers $a$ and $b$. In addition, some generalizations for this result are also given in the last section.

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