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HAUSDORFF DIMENSION [7 records]

Record 1 2000-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

The Hausdorff dimension, also called the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension in one of the possible dimensions.

CONT

The Hausdorff dimension is defined for any subset of R [exponent] n that you can probably imagine. This includes all open sets, closed sets, countable unions of closed sets, countable intersections of open sets, etc. It will follow easily from the definition that Hausdorff dimension is not invariant under homeomorphisms. However, the topological dimension of E is the infimum of the Hausdorff dimensions of its homeomorphic images h(E). Later we will discover that Hausdorff dimension is invariant under something slightly stronger-quasi-isometries(sometimes called "bi-Lipschitz maps" or "Lipeomorphic maps"). Indeed, we will see that the equivalence class of quasi-isometric self-similar curves is completely determined by Hausdorff dimension!

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

La plus ancienne des dimensions fractales possibles, assignée en 1918 par Felix Hausdorff aux courbes de type flocon de neige et développée en 1935 par Besicovitch.

OBS

Le concept mathématique «dimension de Hausdorff» constitue une généralisation de la notion de dimension euclidienne.

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Record 2 1995-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Mathematics
CONT

Some of the basic properties of objects with anomalous dimension were noticed and investigated at the beginning of this century mainly by Hausdorff(1919) and Besicovich(1935). They were considered "monstruous" and "pathological".

OBS

See fractal dimension, anomalous diffusion law, anomalous scaling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Mathématiques
OBS

Anomal : se dit d'une forme ou d'une construction qui présente un caractère aberrant par rapport à un type ou à une règle (sans être incorrecte ou anormale).

Spanish

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Record 3 1994-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Mathematics
CONT

The idea of the capacity of a set was originally developed for treating electrostatic problems.... and extended to more general laws of attraction in... potential theory. It turns out that the Hausdorff dimension and the capacity of a set are related, and it is sometimes more convenient to use the latter concept when studying dimensional properties.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Mathématiques
DEF

Vitesse de croissance du nombre de boules-unités de rayon donné, ou de cubes de côté uniforme, nécessaire à recouvrir un ensemble borné, à mesure que ce rayon décroît.

OBS

La différence entre la dimension de Hausdorff et la densité logarithmique tient au fait que dans un cas on utilise des recouvrements par des boules égales, alors que dans l'autre, on autorise des recouvrements plus complexes. C. Tricot (1981) donne douze définitions possibles de la densité logarithmique.

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

For strictly self-similar mathematical fractals, such as the Sierpinski gasket and the Cantor dust, the mass dimension is the same as the Hausdorff dimension(and any other fractal dimension considered here). They are all given by the similarity dimension of the scaling law, defined by the initiator and the generator that generates the fractal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

Loi de la géométrie, selon laquelle les propriétés physiques telles la masse ou la conductivité dépendent de la taille du système de façon algébrique.

OBS

Par exemple, la masse d'un cube est proportionnelle à la longueur de côté élevée à une puissance D (dimension fractale) - un nombre positif et inférieur à la valeur 3 qui correspond à la dimension euclidienne à laquelle obéissent les objets homogènes.

Spanish

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Record 5 1994-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

For strictly self-similar mathematical fractals, such as the Sierpinski gasket and the Cantor dust, the mass dimension is the same as the Hausdorff dimension.... They are all given by the similarity dimension of the scaling law, defined by the initiator and the generator that generates the fractal. But for practical fractals, there are significant differences....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 6 1989-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A non-zero but finite s-dimensional Hausdorff measure.

OBS

A fractal measure devised in 1935 by Besicovitch based on Felix Hausdorff's work(1919) on non-integer dimensions for geometrically very complex objects. See fractional dimension, fractal dimension, Hausdorff dimension.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
CONT

Dans le contexte triadique de Cantor, partons d'une masse distribuée sur (0,1) avec la densité uniforme égale à 1. Effacer le tiers central divise cette masse en parties égales .. réparties avec les densités 3/2, o, et 3/2 [...] Quand on aura répété la procédure à l'infini, la masse formera ce que nous allons appeler une mesure de Besicovitch [...] Il est clair, pour commencer, qu'aucun intervalle ouvert ne constitue une intermission absolue.

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Record 7 1989-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Econometrics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

More generally, whenever S is of zero Lebesgue measure one can prove that Df is finite and at most equal to the Hausdorff Besicovitch dimension D of S.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Économétrie
  • Infographie

Spanish

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