Integral, Probability, and Fractal Measures

Gerald A. Edgar

Contents

Prefacev
1. Fractal Measures1
1.1Measure Theory1
1.2Hausdorff and Packing Measures13
1.3Vitali Theorems21
1.4Other Local Fractal Measures28
1.5Geometry of Fractals41
1.6*Ultrametric Spaces54
1.7*Comparable Net Measures58
1.8*Remarks63
2. Integrals69
2.1Product Measures69
2.2Integrals77
2.3Radon-Nikodym Theorem88
2.4Measures as Linear Functionals93
2.5Spaces of Measures100
2.6*Remarks109
3. Integrals and Fractals113
3.1*Topological and Fractal Dimension113
3.2Potential Theory115
3.3Fractal Measures123
3.4Self-Affine Graphs135
3.5*Graph Self-Similar Measures146
3.6*Remarks148
4. Probability153
4.1Events153
4.2Random Variables158
4.3Dependence175
4.4Limit Theorems195
4.5*Remarks201
5. Probability and Fractals203
5.1The Chaos Game203
5.2Dimension of Self-Similar Measures208
5.3Random Cantor Sets213
5.4Statistical Self-Similarity220
5.5Statistically Self-Affine Graphs230
5.6Brownian Motion249
5.7*A Multifractal Decomposition257
5.8*Remarks262
References267
Notation279
Index281
*Asterisks indicate optional sections.