Semicontinuity of dimension and measure for locally scaling fractals
The basic question of this paper is: If you consider two iterated function systems close to each other in an appropriate topology, are the dimensions of their respective invariant sets close to each other? It is well known that the Hausdorff dimension (and Lebesgue measure) of the invariant set does not depend continuously on the iterated function system. Our main result is that (with a restriction on the "non-conformality" of the transformations) the Hausdorff dimension is a lower semicontinuous...