Perturbed Iterated Function Systems and the Exact Hausdorff Measure of their Attractors

Abstract

We define a perturbed iterated function system (pIFS) in $\R^d$ as, loosely speaking, a sequence of iterated function systems (IFSs) whose constituent transformations converge towards some limiting IFS. We define the attractor of such a system in a similar style to that of an IFS, and prove that such a set exists uniquely. We define a partially perturbed IFS (ppIFS) to be a perturbed IFS with a constant tail. In a setup with similitudes and the strong separation condition we show that a pIFS attractor can be approximated by a sequence of ppIFS attractors in such a way that the Hausdorff measure is preserved in the limit. We use this result to calculate the exact Hausdorff measure of the pIFS attractor from that of the limiting IFS.