Exceptional sets in homogeneous spaces and Hausdorff dimension

Abstract

In this paper, we study the dimension of a family of sets arising in open dynamics. We use exponential mixing results for diagonalizable flows in compact homogeneous spaces X to show that the Hausdorff dimension of set of points that lie on trajectories missing a particular open ball of radius r is at most where C > 0 is a constant independent of r > 0. Meanwhile, we also describe a general method for computing the least cardinality of open covers of dynamical sets using volume estimates.

Keywords:

• exponential mixing
• homogeneous dynamics
• Hausdorff dimension
• open dynamics

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:

• Primary: 37A17
• Secondary: 11K55, 37A25

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the referee for useful comments.