Measures with predetermined regularity and inhomogeneous self-similar sets

Abstract

We show that if $X$ is a uniformly perfect complete metric space satisfying the finite doubling property, then there exists a fully supported measure with lower regularity dimension as close to the lower dimension of $X$ as we wish. Furthermore, we show that, under the condensation open set condition, the lower dimension of an inhomogeneous self-similar set $E_C$ coincides with the lower dimension of the condensation set $C$, while the Assouad dimension of $E_C$ is the maximum of the Assouad dimensions of the corresponding self-similar set E and the condensation set $C$. If the Assouad dimension of $C$ is strictly smaller than the Assouad dimension of E, then the upper regularity dimension of any measure supported on $E_C$ is strictly larger than the Assouad dimension of $E_C$. Surprisingly, the corresponding statement for the lower regularity dimension fails.