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arxiv: 0909.4251 · v4 · pith:I4K57FAUnew · submitted 2009-09-23 · 🧮 math.DS · math.NT

Schmidt's game, fractals, and numbers normal to no base

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Given $b > 1$ and $y \in \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$, we consider the set of $x\in \mathbb{R}$ such that $y$ is not a limit point of the sequence $\{b^n x \bmod 1: n\in\mathbb{N}\}$. Such sets are known to have full Hausdorff dimension, and in many cases have been shown to have a stronger property of being winning in the sense of Schmidt. In this paper, by utilizing Schmidt games, we prove that these sets and their bi-Lipschitz images must intersect with `sufficiently regular' fractals $K\subset \mathbb{R}$ (that is, supporting measures $\mu$ satisfying certain decay conditions). Furthermore, the intersection has full dimension in $K$ if $\mu$ satisfies a power law (this holds for example if $K$ is the middle third Cantor set). Thus it follows that the set of numbers in the middle third Cantor set which are normal to no base has dimension $\log2/\log3$.

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