Harmonic Analysis Seminar: Matthew Bond

Abstract:

We investigate the probability that "Buffon's Needle" lands near a one-dimensional self-similar product set in the complex plane, where the similarity maps have rational centers and identical scalings. If the factors A and B are defined by at most 6 similarities, then the likelihood that the needle intersects an e^{-n}-neighborhood of such a set is at most Cn^{-p/\log\log n} for some p>0.