Location: room 611 of the Wiskunde building (campus De Uithof) Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht.

Date and time: Thursday, May 20, 2010 15:30-16:30. The lecture is preceded by coffee, tea, and cookies from 15.00 to 15.30 hour in the same room.

How fractal is the sum of two random fractals?


Michel Dekking

(TU Delft)

Abstract: We consider two types of random Cantor sets, M-adic random Cantor sets, and Larsson's random Cantor sets. For both we will consider a probabilistic version of the Palis conjecture: does the sum of the Hausdoff dimensions larger than 1 imply that the algebraic difference of two independent copies contains an interval almost surely?