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Generalized Whitney partitions

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Śniadeckich 8, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland

Abstract

We prove that the upper Minkowski dimension of a compact set Λ is equal to the convergence exponent of any packing of the complement of Λ with polyhedra of size not smaller than a constant multiple of their distance from Λ.

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Fundamenta Mathematicae
2000/166/3
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Pages:
233-249
Main language of publication
English
Received
1998-06-04
Accepted
1999-07-06
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences