A dimensional mass transference principle from ball to rectangles for projections of Gibbs measures and applications

Abstract

Mass transference principle are tools designed to provide estimates for the Hausdorff dimension of points approximable at a certain rate by a specific sequence of points (for instance rationals). Usually, such results are established provided that ambiant space is equipped with an Ahlfors regular measure (see [7,28] for instance). In the case of balls, Barral and Seuret established that mass transference principles still holds provided that the ambiant measure is a Gibbs measure or a self-similar measure satisfying the open set condition ([3]). In this article, we establish a mass transference principle “from ball to rectangle” assuming that the ambiant measure is the projection of Gibbs measure on the dyadic grid. Such measures are not Ahlfors regular in general and this result extends in particular the mass transference principle from ball to rectangle in the case of the Lebesgue measure, established in [28], and partially the result of Barral and Seuret [3]. As an application, given b∈N, we estimate the dimension of weighted approximation of points of [0,1]2 approximable by points with rational coordinates whose expansion in base b has prescribed frequencies. These results are new and surprising in the sens that, although the Lebesgue measure “scales” naturally rectangles, this needs not be the case for projection of Gibbs measures.