Connected sets and Hausdorff measure #
In this file we relate connectedness of a subset s of an extended metric space to its Hausdorff
measure.
The key geometric idea is that the distance from a fixed base point is Lipschitz, so it does not
increase Hausdorff measures, and the image of a preconnected set under this map is an interval whose
one-dimensional Hausdorff measure equals its length. Comparing the two turns distances inside s
into lower bounds for μH[1] s.
Main results #
IsPreconnected.ediam_le_hausdorffMeasure: the diameter of a preconnected set is at most its one-dimensional Hausdorff measure.IsPreconnected.subsingleton_of_hausdorffMeasure_lt_top: a preconnected set with finited-dimensional Hausdorff measure for somed < 1is a subsingleton.isTotallyDisconnected_of_hausdorffMeasure_lt_top: a set with finited-dimensional Hausdorff measure for somed < 1is totally disconnected.IsPreconnected.totallyBounded_of_hausdorffMeasure_lt_top: a preconnected set with finite one-dimensional Hausdorff measure is totally bounded.
TODO #
Prove that a preconnected and complete subset with finite one-dimensional Hausdorff measure is path connected and locally path connected. In fact, any two points in such a set can be connected by an injective geodesic with constant speed whose length is bounded above by the one-dimensional Hausdorff measure of this set.
In a preconnected subset of an extended metric space, any two points are at finite distance.
A preconnected set lies in the bounded component of any of its points.
The distance function x => (edist a x).toReal is Lipschitz on any preconnected set s that
contains a.
For any a, b in a preconnected set s and any r ≤ edist a b, the radius r is at most
the one-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the part of s lying in the open ball of radius r around
a. This lemma is needed in the proof of
IsPreconnected.totallyBounded_of_hausdorffMeasure_lt_top.
The distance between two points of a preconnected set s is at most the one-dimensional
Hausdorff measure of s.
The extended diameter of a preconnected set is at most its one-dimensional Hausdorff measure.
A preconnected set with finite d-dimensional Hausdorff measure for some d < 1 is a
subsingleton.
A set with finite d-dimensional Hausdorff measure for some d < 1 is totally disconnected.
A preconnected set with finite one-dimensional Hausdorff measure is totally bounded.