Mattila's Lemma 14.7 #
This file assembles the ball-bound and good-set machinery into the three statements of Mattila's Lemma 14.7.
Mattila, Lemma 14.7 (1), (2) and (3) #
The three statements below are the almost-everywhere statements of Lemma 14.7; A is the set
positiveFiniteDensitySet s μ of points where 0 < Θ^s_*(μ, a) ≤ Θ^{*s}(μ, a) < ∞, and
"μ almost all points a ∈ A" is expressed by exhibiting a μ-null exceptional set E.
Mattila, Lemma 14.7 (1).
At μ almost all points a of A = {a | 0 < Θ^s_*(μ, a) ≤ Θ^{*s}(μ, a) < ∞}: for every
tangent measure ν ∈ Tan (μ, a) there is a positive (finite) number c such that
t c r ^ s ≤ ν (B (x, r)) ≤ c r ^ s for x ∈ spt ν and 0 < r < ∞, where
t = t (a) = Θ^s_*(μ, a) / Θ^{*s}(μ, a).
The proof needs no sign assumption on the exponent s.
Mattila, Lemma 14.7 (2).
If, in addition, at μ almost all z ∈ A the upper bound
limsup_{δ ↓ 0} sup {d (B) ^ (-s) μ (B) : B a closed ball with z ∈ B, d (B) < δ} ≤ Θ^{*s}(μ, z)
holds, then at μ almost all a ∈ A every tangent measure ν ∈ Tan (μ, a) satisfies
ν (B (x, r)) ≤ c r ^ s for all x ∈ ℝⁿ and r > 0, with the same constant c as in
Lemma 14.7 (1).
Mattila, Lemma 14.7 (3).
If s < n, then at μ almost all a ∈ A there are a unit vector e and a tangent measure
ν ∈ Tan (μ, a) whose support is contained in the half-space {x | 0 ≤ x ⬝ e}.
The proof runs as follows. Almost every a ∈ A lies in one of the closed sets
F = goodSet s p q m μ, on which the measures of all small balls are comparable to ρ ^ s, and
is a μ-density point of F. Since s < n, a Fubini argument shows that a definite proportion
of every ball centred on F is a hole of F (exists_hole_of_ball_bounds), and a density
argument then shows that almost every point of F is an asymptotic touching point: there are
points y ∈ F touching holes B (z, d) with d → 0 and dist y a negligible compared with d
(exists_touching_points_ae). Blowing μ up at a at scales r with dist y a ≪ r ≪ d turns
these holes into balls of radius tending to infinity whose boundaries pass arbitrarily close to
the origin; in the limit they exhaust an open half-space, so the resulting tangent measure is
supported in the complementary closed half-space
(exists_halfSpace_tangentMeasure_of_touching).
The proof turned out not to need any positivity assumption on the exponent s, so the
hypothesis 0 < s was dropped from the statement, as in parts (1) and (2).
Mattila, Lemma 14.7 (4) #
Mattila, Lemma 14.7 (4).
If there exist positive numbers d, t and r₀ such that
t d r ^ s ≤ μ (B (a, r)) ≤ d r ^ s for all a ∈ spt μ and 0 < r < r₀,
then at every point a ∈ spt μ the set Tan (μ, a) of tangent measures is nonempty, and every
tangent measure ν ∈ Tan (μ, a) satisfies the conclusion of Lemma 14.7 (1): there is a positive
finite constant c with t c r ^ s ≤ ν (B (x, r)) ≤ c r ^ s for all x ∈ spt ν and
0 < r < ∞.