<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Along the years, the foundations of Fractal Geometry have received contributions starting from mathematicians like Cantor, Peano, Hilbert, Hausdorff, Carathéodory, Sierpiński, and Besicovitch, to quote some of them. They were some of the pioneers exploring objects having self-similar patterns or showing anomalous properties with respect to standard analytic attributes. Among the new tools developed to deal with this kind of objects, fractal dimension has become one of the most applied since it constitutes a single quantity which throws useful information concerning fractal patterns on sets. Several years later, fractal structures were introduced from Asymmetric Topology to characterize self-similar symbolic spaces. Our aim in this survey is to collect several results involving distinct definitions of fractal dimension we proved jointly with Prof.M.A. Sánchez-Granero in the context of fractal structures.</p></abstract>

Along the years, the foundations of Fractal Geometry have received contributions starting from mathematicians like Cantor, Peano, Hilbert, Hausdorff, Carathéodory, Sierpiński, and Besicovitch, to quote some of them. They were some of the pioneers exploring objects having self-similar patterns or showing anomalous properties with respect to standard analytic attributes. Among the new tools developed to deal with this kind of objects, fractal dimension has become one of the most applied since it constitutes a single quantity which throws useful information concerning fractal patterns on sets. Several years later, fractal structures were introduced from Asymmetric Topology to characterize self-similar symbolic spaces. Our aim in this survey is to collect several results involving distinct definitions of fractal dimension we proved jointly with Prof.M.A. Sánchez-Granero in the context of fractal structures.

A survey on fractal dimension for fractal structures

Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Academia General del Aire

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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Along the years, the foundations of Fractal Geometry have received contributions starting from mathematicians like Cantor, Peano, Hilbert, Hausdorff,...

A survey on fractal dimension for fractal structures

Pubblicato online: 08 set 2016

Pagine: 437 - 472

Ricevuto: 12 apr 2016

Accettato: 08 set 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21042/AMNS.2016.2.00037

Parole chiave
Fractals, fractal structures, fractal dimension, Hausdorff dimension, box-counting dimension, fractal geometry, fractal stochastic processes, Hurst exponent, applications of fractal dimension

© 2016 M. Fernández-Martínez, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A survey on fractal dimension for fractal structures

Pubblicato online: 08 set 2016

Pagine: 437 - 472

Ricevuto: 12 apr 2016

Accettato: 08 set 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21042/AMNS.2016.2.00037

Parole chiaveFractals, fractal structures, fractal dimension, Hausdorff dimension, box-counting dimension, fractal geometry, fractal stochastic processes, Hurst exponent, applications of fractal dimension

© 2016 M. Fernández-Martínez, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Parole chiave
Fractals, fractal structures, fractal dimension, Hausdorff dimension, box-counting dimension, fractal geometry, fractal stochastic processes, Hurst exponent, applications of fractal dimension