This paper is meant as a (short and partial) introduction to the study of the geometry of Carnot groups and, more generally, of Carnot-Carathéodory spaces associated with a family of Lipschitz continuous vector fields. My personal interest in this field goes back to a series of joint papers with E. Lanconelli, where this notion was exploited for the study of pointwise regularity of weak solutions to degenerate elliptic partial differential equations. As stated in the title, here we are mainly concerned...

Let $E$ be a self-similar set with similarities ratio $r_j(0\le j\le m-1)$ and Hausdorff dimension $s$, let $\overrightarrow{p}(p_0,p_1)...p_{m-1}$ be a probability vector. The Besicovitch-type subset of $E$ is defined as$$E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)=\left\{x\in E:\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}\frac{1}{n}\sum _{k=1}^n{\chi }_j\left(x_k\right)=p_j,0\le j\le m-1\right\},$$where ${\chi }_j$ is the indicator function of the set $\left\{j\right\}$. Let $\alpha ={dim}_H\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)={dim}_P\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)=\frac{{\sum }_{j=0}^{m-1}{p}_{j}log{p}_j}{{\sum }_{j=0}^{m-1}{p}_{i}log{r}_j}$ and $g$ be a gauge function, then we prove in this paper:(i) If $\overrightarrow{p}=(r_0^s,r_1^s,\cdots ,r_{m-1}^s)$, then$${\mathscr{H}}^s\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)={\mathscr{H}}^s\left(E\right),{𝒫}^s\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)={𝒫}^s\left(E\right),$$moreover both of ${\mathscr{H}}^s\left(E\right)$ and ${𝒫}^s\left(E\right)$ are finite positive;(ii) If $\overrightarrow{p}$ is a positive probability vector other than $(r_0^s,r_1^s,\cdots ,r_{m-1}^s)$, then the gauge functions can be partitioned as follows$${\mathscr{H}}^g\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)=+\infty \iff \underset{t\to 0}{\overline{\lim }}\frac{logg\left(t\right)}{logt}\le \alpha ;{\mathscr{H}}^g\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)=0⟺\underset{t\to 0}{\overline{\lim }}\frac{logg\left(t\right)}{logt}\>\alpha ,$$$$...$$

Let f : G → H be a Lipschitz map between two Carnot groups. We show that if B is a ball of G, then there exists a subset Z ⊂ B, whose image in H under f has small Hausdorff content, such that BZcan be decomposed into a controlled number of pieces, the restriction of f on each of which is quantitatively biLipschitz. This extends a result of [14], which proved the same result, but with the restriction that G has an appropriate discretization. We provide an example of a Carnot group not admitting such...

For a given sequence a boundedly expressible set is introduced. Three criteria concerning the Hausdorff dimension of such sets are proved.