1. Introduction
The classical Diophantine approximation aims to quantify how closely real numbers can be approximated by rational numbers. A qualitative result is provided by the fact that the rational numbers are dense in the set of real numbers. Dirichlet’s theorem is a fundamental quantitative result in this context.
Theorem 1.1 ([Reference Dirichlet6])
For any
$x \in \mathbb{R}$ and
$Q \gt 1$, there exists an integer
$q \in \mathbb{N}$ such that
\begin{equation*}
\|q x\| \leq \frac{1}{Q} \text {and } q \lt Q .
\end{equation*} Here
$\|\cdot\|$ denotes the distance to the nearest integer, i.e.
$\|x\|=\min_{n\in \mathbb{Z}} |x-n|.$
As an application, we have the following corollary. It should be noted that this corollary was established before Dirichlet’s theorem (see Legendre’s book [Reference Legendre21]).
Corollary 1.2. ([Reference Legendre21])
For any
$x \in \mathbb{R}$, there exist infinitely many integers
$q$ such that
\begin{equation*}
\|q x\| \lt \frac{1}{q}.
\end{equation*}The above two results characterize a uniform and an asymptotic rate of rational approximation to all real numbers, respectively. In this context, the metric Diophantine approximation aims to improve the approximation rates in the two statements mentioned above on the one hand, and to quantify the size of the intrinsic sets in terms of measures and dimensions on the other hand.
If we denote the rotation mapping on the unit circle by
$R_\alpha: x \mapsto x+\alpha$ for any irrational number
$\alpha$, Dirichlet’s theorem and its corollary represent an investigation of the approximation properties of the orbit
$\{R_\alpha^n0:n\ge1\}.$ This motivates us to study the asymptotic approximation problems and uniform approximation problems in general dynamical systems. Regarding the approximation rate, it is natural to extend our discussion to general approximating functions. More specifically, given a metric space
$(X, d)$, a point
$x_0 \in X$, a mapping
$T: X \rightarrow X$ and a positive function
$\psi$, we are concerned with the size of the set
and the set
\begin{align*}
U\left(T, \psi, x_0\right)=\Big\{x \in X:&\text{for every sufficiently large }N, \\
&\text{there exists }1 \leq n \leq N \text {such that } d\left(T^n x, x_0\right) \lt \psi(N)\Big\}.
\end{align*} When
$(X, T)$ is the irrational rotation
$([0,1], R_\alpha)$, Fayad [Reference Fayad9] and Kim [Reference Kim15] studied the Lebesgue measure of the set
$A\left(R_\alpha, \psi, x_0\right)$. Bugeaud [Reference Bugeaud3], Troubetzkoy and Schmeling [Reference Troubetzkoy and Schmeling28] proved that for any
$a \gt 1,$
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} \left\{x \in [0, 1] : \left\| R_\alpha^n x - x_0 \right\| \lt \frac{1}{n^a} \text {for infinitely many } n \in \mathbb{N} \right\} = \frac{1}{a}
,\end{equation*}where
$\dim_{\mathrm H}$ represents the Hausdorff dimension. Kim and Liao [Reference Kim and Liao16], and Kim et al. [Reference Kim, Rams and Wang17] further investigated the size of the set
$U\left(R_\alpha, \psi, x_0\right).$
When
$(X,T)$ is a system where
$T$ is an expanding rational map of degree
$\ge 2$ and
$X$ the corresponding Julia set, Hill and Velani [Reference Hill and Velani11] investigated the Hausdorff dimension of the set
$A\left(T, \psi, x_0\right).$ When
$(X,T)$ is an exponentially mixing system with respect to the probability measure
$\mu,$ Kleinbock, Konstantoulas and Richter [Reference Kleinbock, Konstantoulas and Richter19] gave sufficient conditions for
$U\left(T, \psi, x_0\right)$ to be of zero or full measure. More results regarding uniform approximation and asymptotic approximation can be found in [Reference Ganotaki and Persson10, Reference Hill and Velani12, Reference Hill and Velani13, Reference Kirsebom, Kunde and Persson18, Reference Kleinbock and Rao20, Reference Tan and Zhou26, Reference Wang, Li and Li29].
In this paper, we study the
$\beta$-dynamical system
$\left([0,1], T_\beta\right)$. For a real number
$\beta \gt 1$, we define the
$\beta$-transformation
$T_\beta:[0,1] \rightarrow[0,1]$ by
where
$\lfloor\cdot\rfloor$ indicates the integral part of a real number.
In 1957, Rényi [Reference Rényi24] introduced the map
$T_{\beta}$ as a model for expanding real numbers in non-integer bases. Parry [Reference Parry22] showed that there exists an invariant and ergodic measure under
$T_\beta$ that is equivalent to the Lebesgue measure
$\mathcal{L}$ defined on
$[0,1]$. Then Birkhoff’s ergodic theorem yields that for a fixed
$ x_0 \in [0, 1] ,$
\begin{equation}
\liminf_{n \to \infty} \left| T_\beta^n x - x_0 \right| = 0
\end{equation}for
$\mathcal{L}$-almost every
$ x \in [0, 1] .$
Taking into account the speed of convergence in (2), Philipp [Reference Philipp23] proved that for every fixed
$x_0 \in [0,1]$,
\begin{equation*}
\mathcal{L}\left(A\left(T_\beta, \varphi, x_0\right)\right)= \begin{cases}0 & \text {if } \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \varphi(n) \lt \infty; \\ 1 & \text {if } \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \varphi(n)=\infty.\end{cases}
\end{equation*} Shen and Wang [Reference Shen and Wang25] obtained the Hausdorff dimension of
$A\left(T_\beta, \varphi, x_0\right):$
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} A\left(T_\beta, \varphi, x_0\right)=\frac{1}{1+\alpha}, \quad \text {where } \alpha=\liminf _{n \to \infty} \frac{-\log _\beta \varphi(n)}{n}.
\end{equation*} Furthermore, for any
$x \in[0,1]$ and any real number
$\beta \gt 1$, Bugeaud and Liao [Reference Bugeaud and Liao5] introduced the asymptotic approximation exponent, defined as
\begin{equation*}
v_{\beta}(x)=\sup \left\{0 \leq v \lt \infty:
T_\beta^n x \lt \left(\beta^n\right)^{-v}
\text {for infinitely many } n \in \mathbb{N} \right\},
\end{equation*}and the uniform approximation exponent, defined as
\begin{align*}
\hat{v}_{\beta}(x)=\sup \Big\{0 \leq \hat{v} \lt \infty:&\text{for every sufficiently large }N, \\
&\text{there exists }1 \leq n \leq N \text {such that } T_\beta^n x \lt \left(\beta^N\right)^{-\hat{v}}\Big\}.
\end{align*}They also showed that
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} \left\{x \in [0,1]: \hat{v}_\beta(x) \geq \hat{v}\right\}=\dim_{\mathrm H}\left\{x \in [0,1]: \hat{v}_\beta(x)=\hat{v}\right\}=\left(\frac{1-\hat{v}}{1+\hat{v}}\right)^2
\end{equation*}for all
$\hat{v} \in[0,1]$.
With respect to the two-dimensional (2D) case of
$\beta$-dynamical systems, Wu [Reference Wu30] considered the size of the set
\begin{equation*}W_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(v) =\left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \begin{array}{l}
T_{\beta_1}^n x \lt \beta_1^{-n v} \\
T_{\beta_2}^n y \lt \beta_2^{-n v}
\end{array} \text {for infinitely many } n \in \mathbb{N}\right\},\end{equation*}where
$\beta_2\geq \beta_1 \gt 1$ and
$v \gt 0.$ More specifically, Wu proved the following result.
Theorem 1.3 ([Reference Wu30])
Let
$\beta_1$ and
$\beta_2$ be real numbers with
$\beta_2\geq \beta_1 \gt 1$ and let
$v$ be a positive number. Then,
\begin{equation} \dim_{\mathrm H} W_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(v) =\left\{\begin{array}{ll}
\frac{2+v-v\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}{1+v} &\text{if}~\beta_1^{1+v} \lt \beta_2;\\
\min\left\{\frac{1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}{(1+v)\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}, \frac{2+v-v\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}{1+v}\right\} &\text{if}~\beta_1^{1+v}\geq\beta_2.
\end{array}
\right.\end{equation} Considering the results discussed above, it is reasonable to further study the intersection of asymptotic approximation problems and uniform approximation problems in 2D
$\beta$-dynamical systems. For clarity, we introduce two approximation exponents associated with asymptotic/uniform Diophantine approximation.
Definition 1.4. Let
$\beta_1$ and
$\beta_2$ be real numbers greater than 1. For any
$(x,y)\in[0,1]^2,$ define
\begin{equation*}
v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\sup \left\{0\leq v \lt \infty:\begin{array}{l}
T_{\beta_1}^n x \lt \beta_1^{-n v} \\
T_{\beta_2}^n y \lt \beta_2^{-n v}
\end{array} \text {for infinitely many } n\in\mathbb{N} \right\},
\end{equation*}and
\begin{align*}
\hat{v}_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(x, y)=\sup\Big\{0 \leq \hat{v} \lt \infty:&\text{for every sufficiently large }N, \\
&\text{there exists }1 \leq n \leq N \text {such that } T_{\beta_1}^n x \lt \beta_1^{-N \hat{v}}, \\
& T_{\beta_2}^n y \lt \beta_2^{-N \hat{v}}\Big\}.
\end{align*} The exponents
$v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)$ and
$\hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)$ are similar to those defined in [Reference Bugeaud and Liao5]; see also [Reference Amou and Bugeaud1, Reference Bugeaud and Laurent4] for more information. With this notation,
$W_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(v)$ can be represented as
$\{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)\geq v \}.$
We will denote by
$A_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(v)$ the level set of the asymptotic approximation exponent
\begin{equation*}
A_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(v)=\left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: v_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(x, y)=v\right\},
\end{equation*}and by
$U_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v})$ the level set of the uniform approximation exponent
\begin{equation*}
U_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v})=\left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(x, y)=\hat{v} \right\}.
\end{equation*} For general
$\beta_1$ and
$\beta_2,$ we study the Hausdorff dimension of the intersection
in this paper.
For brevity, let
\begin{equation*}
A(\hat{v},v)=\frac{\left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)(v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v)}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}+1-\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1,\quad\!\! B(\hat{v},v)=\frac{1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1}{\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1} \frac{v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}C(\hat{v},v)=\frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}\left(1+\left(\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)^{-1}\right)}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}+1.
\end{equation*}Theorem 1.5
Let
$\beta_2\ge\beta_1 \gt 1$ and
$\log _{\beta_2}{\beta_1} \gt \frac{\hat{v}}{v}(1+v)$. Then the following statements hold:
• when
$\hat{v}=v=0$, the set
$E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$ has full Lebesgue measure;• when
$0 \lt \frac{v}{1+v} \lt \hat{v}\leq \infty$,
\begin{equation*}\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v)=0;\end{equation*}• when
$0\leq \hat{v} \leq \frac{v}{1+v} \lt \infty,$ the Hausdorff dimension of
$E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v)$ is given by
\begin{align*} \left\{\begin{array}{ll}
\min\left\{ A(\hat{v},v) ,~B(\hat{v},v)\right\} &\text{if}~\beta_1^{1+v} \gt \beta_2; \\
\min\left\{ A(\hat{v},v) ,~C(\hat{v},v)\right\} &\text{if}~\beta_1^{1+v}\le \beta_2.
\end{array}
\right.\end{align*}
Remark 1.6. Notably, the condition
$\log_{\beta_2}{\beta_1} \gt \frac{\hat{v}}{v}(1 + v)$ is only invoked for estimating the lower bound of
$\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v).$
As corollaries of Theorem 1.5, for general
$\beta_1$ and
$\beta_2$, we can obtain the Hausdorff dimensions of sets
$A_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(v)$ and
$U_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v})$. In particular, when
$\beta_1=\beta_2$, the Hausdorff dimensions of these two sets were established by Tian and Peng [Reference Tian and Peng27].
Theorem 1.7
Let
$\beta_1$ and
$\beta_2$ be real numbers greater than 1. For any
$0 \lt v \lt \infty,$ we have
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} A_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(v)
=\dim_{\mathrm H} W_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(v)= \begin{cases}\frac{2+v-v \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1}{1+v} & \text {if } \beta_1^{1+v} \lt \beta_2; \\ \min \left\{\frac{1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1}{(1+v) \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1}, \frac{2+v-v \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1}{1+v}\right\} & \text {if } \beta_1^{1+v} \geq \beta_2.\end{cases}
\end{equation*} When
$v=0,$
$\dim_{\mathrm H} A_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(v)
=2;$ when
$v=\infty,$
$\dim_{\mathrm H} A_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(v)
=0.$
Theorem 1.8
Let
$\beta_1$ and
$\beta_2$ be real numbers greater than 1. For any
$\hat{v}\in[0,1]$, we have
\begin{align*}
&\dim_{\mathrm H} \{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\hat{v} \}\\
=&\dim_{\mathrm H} \{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)\geq \hat{v} \}\\
=&\sup _{0\leq v \leq \infty }\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v).
\end{align*} Otherwise, for any
$\hat{v} \gt 1$, both set
$ \{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\hat{v} \}$ and set
$\{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)\geq \hat{v} \} $ are countable.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we collect some elementary properties of
$\beta$-expansions. For further details, we refer to [Reference Fan and Wang8, Reference Parry22, Reference Rényi24].
For any
$\beta \gt 1$, let
$T_{\beta}$ be defined as in (1). Then, any
$x\in [0,1]$ can be uniquely represented as
\begin{align}
x=&\frac{\varepsilon_1(x,\beta)}{\beta}+\frac{\varepsilon_2(x,\beta)}{\beta^2}+\cdots+\frac{\varepsilon_n(x,\beta)+T^n_\beta(x)}{\beta^{n}} \\
=&\frac{\varepsilon_1(x,\beta)}{\beta}+\frac{\varepsilon_2(x,\beta)}{\beta^2}+\cdots+\frac{\varepsilon_n(x,\beta)}{\beta^n}+\cdots, \nonumber\end{align}where
$\varepsilon_n(x,\beta)=\lfloor \beta T^{n-1}_{\beta}x \rfloor$ is called the
$n$th digit of
$x.$ The sequence
$\varepsilon(x,\beta)=\varepsilon_1(x,\beta)\varepsilon_2(x,\beta)\cdots$ is called the
$\beta$-expansion of
$x\in[0,1].$
If the sequence
$\varepsilon(1,\beta)$ ends with
$0^\infty=00\cdots,$
$\beta$ is called a simple Parry number, and we define
where
$\varepsilon_n(1,\beta)$ is the last digit of
$\varepsilon(1,\beta)$ that is not equal to 0, and
$\varepsilon_n^{-}(1,\beta)=\varepsilon_n(1,\beta)-1.$ Otherwise, we define the sequence
$\varepsilon^*(1,\beta)$ as
$\varepsilon(1,\beta).$ Note that the set of simple Parry numbers is everywhere dense in
$(1, \infty),$ see [Reference Parry22] for a proof.
One can easily verify that for any
$x\in[0,1],$ all digits
$\varepsilon_n(x,\beta)$ are in
$ \mathcal{A}:=\{0,1,\cdots,\lfloor \beta \rfloor \}.$ However, not every sequence in
$\mathcal{A}^{\mathbb{N}}$ corresponds to the
$\beta$-expansion for some
$x\in[0,1].$ A finite or infinite sequence
$\varepsilon_1\varepsilon_2\cdots$ is called
$\beta$-admissible if there exists an
$x \in [0, 1]$ such that the
$\beta$-expansion of
$x$ begins with
$\varepsilon_1\varepsilon_2\cdots.$
A lexicographical order
$\prec$ on
$\mathcal{A}^{\mathbb{N}}$ is defined as follows:
if there exists
$m\geq0$ such that
$\xi_1\cdots\xi_m= \varepsilon_1\cdots\varepsilon_m,$ and
$\xi_{m+1} \lt \varepsilon_{m+1}.$ The notation
$\xi\preceq \varepsilon$ means that
$\xi \prec \varepsilon$ or
$\xi=\varepsilon.$ This ordering extends to finite sequences by identifying a finite sequence
$\xi_1\cdots\xi_n$ with the infinite sequence
$\xi_1\cdots\xi_n00 \cdots.$
The following lemma is a characterization of the admissible sequences.
Lemma 2.1. ([Reference Parry22])
Let
$\beta \gt 1.$
(1) A digit sequence
$\xi=\xi_1\xi_2\cdots\in \mathcal{A}_\beta^{\mathbb{N}}$ is
$\beta$-admissible if and only if
where
\begin{equation*}\sigma^i\xi \prec \varepsilon^*(1,\beta) \quad \text{for all}~ i\geq1,\end{equation*}
$\sigma$ is the shift operator such that
$\sigma \xi = \xi_2\xi_3\cdots .$(2) If
$1 \lt \beta_1 \lt \beta_2,$ then
\begin{equation*}\varepsilon^*(1,\beta_1) \prec \varepsilon^*(1,\beta_2).\end{equation*}
For
$n\geq 1$, let
$ \Sigma_\beta^n$ denote the set of all
$\beta$-admissible sequences of length
$n,$ i.e.
The following lemma provides an estimate for the cardinality of the set
$\Sigma_\beta^n.$
Lemma 2.2. ([Reference Rényi24])
Let
$\beta \gt 1.$ Then for any
$n\geq1,$
\begin{equation*} \beta^n\leq \sharp \Sigma_\beta^n \leq \frac{\beta^{n+1}}{\beta-1},\end{equation*}where
$\sharp$ denotes the cardinality of a finite set.
For any
$n\ge1$ and any
$\omega=\omega_1\cdots \omega_n\in \Sigma_\beta^n,$ the set
is called an
$n$th order basic interval (or an
$n$th order cylinder) with respect to the
$\beta$. As proved in [Reference Fan and Wang8],
$I_{n,\beta}(\omega)$ is a left-closed and right-open interval with length at most
$\beta^{-n}$. Furthermore, the notion of ‘full cylinder’ was introduced in [Reference Fan and Wang8]. Let
$|A|$ denote the diameter of a set
$A$.
Definition 2.3. Let
$\omega\in \Sigma_{\beta}^n.$ A basic interval
$I_{n,\beta}(\omega)$ is called full if
\begin{equation*}
|I_{n,\beta}(\omega) |=\frac{1}{\beta^{n}}.
\end{equation*}Furthermore, the word corresponding to the full cylinder is also said to be full.
Lemma 2.4. ([Reference Fan and Wang8], [Reference Shen and Wang25])
Let
$\varepsilon=\varepsilon_1\cdots\varepsilon_n \in\Sigma_{\beta}^n. $
(1) A basic interval
$I_{n,\beta}(\varepsilon)$ is full if and only if, for any
$\beta$-admissible word
$\omega=\omega_1\cdots\omega_m\in\Sigma_{\beta}^m,$ the concatenation
$\varepsilon\omega=\varepsilon_1\cdots\varepsilon_n\omega_1\cdots\omega_m$ is also
$\beta$-admissible.(2) If
$I_{n,\beta}(\varepsilon)$ is full, then for any
$\omega\in \Sigma_{\beta}^m$ we have
\begin{equation*}|I_{n+m,\beta}(\varepsilon\omega)| = |I_{n,\beta}(\varepsilon)| \cdot |I_{m,\beta}(\omega)| = \beta^{-n}\cdot |I_{m,\beta}(\omega)|.
\end{equation*}
The following approximation of the
$\beta$-shift is crucial in constructing subsets. For any
$N$ with
$\varepsilon^*_N(1,\beta) \gt 0,$ let
$\beta_N$ be the unique real number satisfying the equation
\begin{equation*}
1=\frac{\varepsilon^*_1(1,\beta)}{z}+\cdots+\frac{\varepsilon^*_N(1,\beta)}{z^N} .
\end{equation*}Then
It can be checked that
$\beta_N \lt \beta$ and the sequence
$\{\beta_N\}$ increases and converges to
$\beta$ as
$N\rightarrow\infty$. By Lemma 2.1 (2), for any
$n\geq1$,
$\Sigma_{\beta_N}^n \subset \Sigma_{\beta}^n $.
Lemma 2.5. ([Reference Shen and Wang25])
For any
$\omega \in \Sigma_{\beta_N}^n$, viewed as an element of
$\Sigma_{\beta}^n$, the word
$\omega0^N$ is full, and
\begin{equation*}
\beta^{-(n+N)}\leq |I_{n,\beta}(\omega)|\leq \beta^{-n}.
\end{equation*} We end this section with the following notation. Given two positive real numbers
$a$ and
$b,$ we write
$a\ll b$ or
$b\gg a$ if there exists an unspecified positive constant
$C$ such that
$a\leq Cb.$ We write
$a \asymp b$ if
$a \ll b$ and
$a\gg b.$ For intervals
$J_i,J'_i\subset [0,1]$
$(i=1,2),$ let
$R=J_1\times J_2,~R'=J'_1\times J'_2$ and
Then we say that two rectangles
$R$ and
$R'$ are
$C$-separated (with
$C \gt 0$) in the
$i$th direction if
$d_i(R,R') \geq C.$
3. Proof of Theorem 1.5
3.1. Upper bound
In this subsection, we will estimate the upper bound of
$\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$. We start by recalling a classical result in the 2D shrinking target problem in
$\beta$-dynamical systems.
Lemma 3.1. ([Reference Hussain and Wang14])
Let
$\beta_2\geq \beta_1 \gt 1$ and let
$\psi_i$ (i = 1,2) be two positive functions defined on
$\mathbb{N}.$ Let
$W_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\psi_1,\psi_2)$ be the set
\begin{equation*}
\left\{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: \begin{array}{l}
T_{\beta_1}^n x \lt \psi_1(n) \\
T_{\beta_2}^n y \lt \psi_2(n)
\end{array}~ \text {for infinitely many }~ n\in\mathbb{N} \right\}.
\end{equation*}Then
\begin{equation*} \mathcal{L}^{2}(W_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\psi_1,\psi_2))=\left\{\begin{array}{ll}
0 &\text{if}~\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty \psi_1(n)\psi_2(n) \lt \infty; \\
1 &\text{if}~\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty \psi_1(n)\psi_2(n) =\infty,
\end{array}
\right.\end{equation*}where
$\mathcal{L}^2$ denotes the Lebesgue measure on
$[0, 1]^2$.
We give the result for the case
$v=0$.
Lemma 3.2. One has
$\mathcal{L}^2\{(x,y)\in[0,1]^2:v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=0 \}=1.$
Proof. It is evident that
\begin{align*}
& \left\{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y) \gt 0\right\}\\
=&\bigcup_{m=1}^\infty \left\{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y) \gt \frac{1}{m} \right\}\\
=&\bigcup_{m=1}^\infty \left\{(x,y)\in[0,1]^2: \left.\begin{array}{c}
T_{\beta_1}^nx \lt \beta_1^{- \frac{n}{m}} \\
T_{\beta_2}^ny \lt \beta_2^{-\frac{n}{m}}
\end{array} \right. ~ \text {for infinitely many }~ n\in\mathbb{N} \right\}.
\end{align*} The convergence of
$\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty} (\beta_1\beta_2)^{-\frac{n}{m}} $ yields, via Lemma 3.1, that
\begin{equation*}\mathcal{L}^2\left\{(x,y)\in [0,1]^2: v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y) \gt 0\right\}=0 .
\end{equation*}This completes the proof.
We now turn to the case
$0 \lt v\leq \infty.$
Lemma 3.3. Let
$(x,y)\in [0,1]^2$ and
$v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y) \gt 0$. If
$(T_{\beta_1}^n x, T_{\beta_2}^n y)\neq (0,0)$ for all
$n\in\mathbb{N}$, then there exist two sequences
$\{n_k\}$ and
$\{m_k\}$ depending on
$(x,y)$ such that
\begin{equation}
v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y) =\limsup_{k\rightarrow\infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_k}=:\alpha(x,y)
\end{equation}and
\begin{equation}
\hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\liminf_{k\rightarrow\infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_{k+1}}=:\gamma(x,y) .
\end{equation}Proof. Define
$l_{n,\beta}(x)$ as the maximal length of blocks of consecutive zeros just after the
$n$th digit of
$\varepsilon(x,\beta),$ i.e.
For any
$(x,y)\in [0,1]^2$, set
\begin{align*}
n_1= n_1(x,y) & =\inf\left\{n\geq 1: l_{n,\beta_1}(x)\cdot l_{n,\beta_2}(y) \gt 0 \right\}, \\
m_1=m_1(x,y) & =n_1+\min \left\{l_{n,\beta_1}(x), l_{n,\beta_2}(y)\right\}.
\end{align*} Assume that
$n_k$ and
$m_k$ have been defined for any
$k\geq1$. Let
\begin{align*}
n_{k+1} &=n_{k+1}(x,y) =\inf\{n \gt m_k: l_{n,\beta_1}(x)\cdot l_{n,\beta_2}(y) \gt 0 \}, \\
m_{k+1} &=m_{k+1}(x,y) =n_{k+1}+\min \{l_{n_{k+1},\beta_1}(x),l_{n_{k+1},\beta_2}(y)\}.
\end{align*} Due to
$v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y) \gt 0$,
$n_k$ is well defined. Since
$(T_{\beta_1}^n x, T_{\beta_2}^n y)\neq (0,0)$ for any
$n\in\mathbb{N}$,
$m_k$ is also well defined. Furthermore,
$v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y) \gt 0$ implies that
$\limsup_{k\rightarrow \infty} (m_{k}-n_{k}) =\infty.$
Now we choose two subsequences
$\{n_{i_k}\}$ and
$\{m_{i_k}\}$ of
$\{n_k\}$ and
$\{m_k\}$ such that the sequence
$\{m_{i_k}-n_{i_k}\}$ is non-decreasing. Let
$i_1=1$. Suppose that
$i_k$ has been defined. Let
For abbreviation, we continue to write
$\{n_k\}$ and
$\{m_k\}$ for the subsequences
$\{n_{i_k}\}$ and
$\{m_{i_k}\}$ when there is no risk of confusion.
On the one hand, for any
$\delta \gt 0,$ there exists
$k_0\geq1$ such that
$m_k-n_k\geq (\gamma(x,y)-\delta)n_{k+1}$ for each
$k\geq k_0$. Then, for any
$N\geq n_{k_0}$, there exists
$k\geq k_0$ such that
$n_k\leq N \lt n_{k+1}$. Note that
\begin{equation*}
T^{n_k}_{\beta_1}x \leq \frac{1}{\beta_1^{l_{n_k,\beta_1}(x)}} \leq \frac{1}{\beta_1^{m_k-n_k}}\leq \frac{1}{\beta_1^{(\gamma(x,y)-\delta)n_{k+1}}}\leq\frac{1}{\beta_1^{(\gamma(x,y)-\delta)N}}. \end{equation*}Similarly, we obtain
\begin{equation*}
T^{n_k}_{\beta_2}y \leq \frac{1}{\beta_2^{l_{n_k,\beta_2}(y)}} \leq \frac{1}{\beta_2^{m_k-n_k}}\leq \frac{1}{\beta_2^{(\gamma(x,y)-\delta)N}}.
\end{equation*} It follows that
$\hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)\geq\gamma (x,y)-\delta$ for any
$\delta \gt 0$.
On the other hand, for any
$\delta \gt 0$, there exists a subsequence
$\{k_j\}$ such that
From the definitions of the sequences
$\{n_k\}_{k\geq1}$ and
$\{m_k\}_{k\geq1}$, it follows that for any
$1\leq n \lt n_{k+1}$,
Thus, for any
$T\geq1$, we can find
$N:=n_{k_{j+1}} \gt T$ such that for all
$1\leq n \lt N$, the following holds: if
$l_{n,\beta_1}(x)=\min \{l_{n,\beta_1}(x), l_{n,\beta_2}(y) \},$ then
\begin{equation*}
T_{\beta_1}^nx\geq \frac{1}{\beta_1^{l_{n,\beta_1}(x) +1}}\geq \frac{1}{\beta_1^{m_{k_j}-n_{k_j}+1}}\geq \frac{1}{\beta_1^{(\gamma(x,y)+\delta)n_{k_{j+1}}}} ,\end{equation*}otherwise,
\begin{equation*}
T_{\beta_2}^ny\geq \frac{1}{\beta_2^{l_{n,\beta_2}(y)+1}}\geq \frac{1}{\beta_2^{m_{k_j}-n_{k_j}+1}}\geq \frac{1}{\beta_2^{(\gamma(x,y)+\delta)n_{k_{j+1}}}} .
\end{equation*} Therefore,
$\hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y) \lt \gamma(x,y)+\delta$ for any
$\delta \gt 0$. Hence,
$\hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\gamma(x,y)$.
The equality (5) follows from an analogous argument.
Recall that
\begin{equation*}
E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)=\{(x,y)\in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\hat{v} ~\text{and}~ v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=v \}.
\end{equation*} For any
$(x,y)\in E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$ with
$v \gt 0$, if
$(T_{\beta_1}^n x, T_{\beta_2}^n y)\neq (0,0)$ for all
$n\in\mathbb{N}$, we associate
$(x,y)$ with two sequences
$\{n_k\}$,
$\{m_k\}$ as in Lemma 3.3. It follows from the construction of the sequences
$\{n_k\}$ and
$\{m_k\}$ that
Thus
\begin{align}
\hat{v}=\liminf\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty}\frac{m_k-n_k}{n_{k+1}}\leq & \limsup\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty}\frac{m_k-n_k}{m_k} \\
= &1- \frac{1}{1+\limsup\limits_{k\rightarrow\infty}\frac{m_k-n_k}{n_k}}
= \frac{v }{1+v }, \nonumber\end{align}where
$\frac{v}{1+v}=1~\text{if}~v=\infty$. Hence, if
$0 \lt \frac{v}{1+v} \lt \hat{v}\leq \infty$, then
$E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$ is at most countable, and
The task is now to construct a covering of
$E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v) $ in the case
$0\le \hat{v}\leq \frac{v}{1+v} \lt \infty$ and
$0 \lt v\leq \infty.$ Since
$E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(0,v)\subset \{(x,y)\in[0,1]^2: v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)\geq v\}$, by Theorem 1.3, we get that
\begin{equation*} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(0,v) \le \left\{\begin{array}{ll}
\frac{2+v-v\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}{1+v} &\text{if}~\beta_1^{1+v} \lt \beta_2,\\
\min\left\{\frac{1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}{(1+v)\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}, \frac{2+v-v\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}{1+v}\right\} &\text{if}~\beta_1^{1+v}\geq\beta_2,
\end{array}
\right.\end{equation*}which is the desired upper bound.
It remains to deal with the case
$0 \lt \hat{v}\leq \frac{v}{1+v} \lt v \lt \infty.$ Since we focus on establishing the upper bound of
$E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v),$ it suffices to construct a covering of
\begin{equation*}
\widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v):=E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v) \cap\left\{(x,y)\in[0,1]^2: ~(T_{\beta_1}^n x, T_{\beta_2}^n y)\neq (0,0)~\text{for all} ~n\in\mathbb{N} \right\} .\end{equation*} Keep in mind that for all sequences
$(\{n_k\},\{m_k\})$ associated with some
$(x,y)\in \widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v),$ the following properties hold:
(i)
$x$ and
$y$ have fixed blocks in the same positions, i.e.
\begin{align}
&\varepsilon_{n_k+1}(x,\beta_1)=\cdots=\varepsilon_{m_k}(x,\beta_1)=0 ,~\text{and}\\
&\varepsilon_{n_k+1}(y,\beta_2)=\cdots=\varepsilon_{m_k}(y,\beta_2)=0 ,\nonumber\end{align}for all
$k\geq1$.
(ii) For any
$k\geq1$, we have
(iii) The sequence
$\{n_k\}$ increases exponentially. More specifically, there exists a constant
$C \gt 1$ independent of
$(x,y)$ such that when
$k$ is large enough,
Indeed, it follows from
$\hat{v} \gt 0$ that
$m_k-n_k\ge\frac{\hat{v}}{2}n_{k+1}$ for all sufficiently large
$k$, and thus for large enough
$k$,
\begin{equation*}
\left(1-\frac{\hat{v}}{2} \right)n_{k+1}\geq m_k-\frac{\hat{v}}{2}n_{k+1}\geq n_k.
\end{equation*} (iv) For any
$\varepsilon \gt 0,$ we have that for large enough
$k$,
\begin{equation}
\sum_{i=1}^{k-1} (m_i-n_i)\geq \left(\frac{v\hat{v}}{v-\hat{v} }-\varepsilon\right)n_k.
\end{equation} In particular, we set
$\frac{v\hat{v}}{v-\hat{v}}=\hat{v}$ when
$v=\infty.$
We conclude from (5) and (6) that for any
$\delta \gt 0$ there exists
$k_0$ such that for any
$k\geq k_0$,
Thus, for any
$\varepsilon \gt 0$ there exist
$\delta =\delta(\varepsilon) \gt 0$ and
$k_1 \gt k_0$ such that for all
$k \gt k_1$,
\begin{align*}
\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i-n_i)&\geq \sum_{i=k_0}^{k-1}(\hat{v}-\delta)n_{i+1}\\
& \ge \sum_{i=k_0}^{k-1}n_k(\hat{v}-\delta)\left(\frac{\hat{v}-\delta}{v+\delta}\right)^{k-i-1}\\
& \ge \left(\frac{\hat{v} v}{v-\hat{v}}-\varepsilon\right)n_k.
\end{align*} Letting
$\varepsilon \to 0$, we have
\begin{equation*}
\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{k-1} m_i-n_i}{n_k} \geq \frac{\hat{v} v}{v-\hat{v}}.
\end{equation*} We now construct a covering of
$\widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$ for
$0 \lt \hat{v}\leq \frac{v}{1+v} \lt \infty$ and
$0 \lt v\leq \infty$. We collect all sequences
$\{n_k\}$ and
$\{m_k\}$ associated with some
$(x,y)\in \widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$ as in Lemma 3.3 to form a set
\begin{equation*}
\Omega=\left\{(\{n_k\},\{m_k\}): (9)~\text{holds}, ~\limsup_{k\rightarrow\infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_k}=v ~\text{and}~ \liminf_{k\rightarrow\infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_{k+1}}=\hat{v} \right\} .
\end{equation*} For
$(\{n_k\},\{m_k\})\in \Omega,$ define
and
\begin{align*}
D_{n_1,m_1;\cdots;n_{k-1},m_{k-1}}=\{(\omega,\nu)\in \Sigma_{\beta_1}^{n_k}\times\ \Sigma_{\beta_2}^{n_k}:~& \omega_{n_i+1}=\cdots=\omega_{m_i}=0 , ~\text{and}~\\
& \nu_{n_i+1}=\cdots=\nu_{m_i}=0 ,\\
& \text{for all} ~1\leq i\leq k-1\}.
\end{align*} For any
$\omega\in \Sigma_{\beta}^n,$ let
\begin{equation*}
J_{n,\beta}^\varepsilon(\omega) =\left\{x \in I_{n,\beta}(\omega): T_{\beta}^nx \lt \beta^{-n(v-\varepsilon)}\right\} .
\end{equation*} Thus, for any
$\varepsilon \gt 0$,
\begin{align}
&\widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)\\ \nonumber
\subset &\bigcup_{(\{n_k\},\{m_k\})\in \Omega} F( \{n_k\},\{m_k\})\\ \nonumber
\subset& \bigcap_{K=1}^\infty\bigcup_{k=K}^\infty \bigcup_{n_k\geq e^{\frac{k}{C}}}\bigcup_{(n_1,m_1,\cdots,n_{k-1},m_{k-1})\in \Lambda_{k,n_k}(\varepsilon)}\\ \nonumber
& \bigcup_{(\omega,\nu)\in D_{n_1,m_1;\cdots;n_{k-1},m_{k-1}} } J_{n_k,\beta_1}^\varepsilon(\omega)\times J_{n_k,\beta_2}^\varepsilon(\nu).\end{align}It is straightforward to verify that
\begin{equation*}
\sharp \Lambda_{k,n_k}(\varepsilon) \leq n_k^{2k} .
\end{equation*} Applying (10),
$\beta_1\le\beta_2$, and Lemma 2.2, we deduce that if
$(n_1,m_1,\cdots,m_{k-1})\in \Lambda_{k,n_k}(\varepsilon),$ then
\begin{align*}
\sharp D_{n_1,m_1;\cdots;n_{k-1},m_{k-1}} \leq & \left(\frac{\beta_1}{\beta_1-1}\right)^{k} \left(\frac{\beta_2}{\beta_2-1}\right)^{k} \beta_1^{n_k- \sum_{i=1}^{k-1} (m_i-n_i)} \beta_2^{{n_k- \sum_{i=1}^{k-1} (m_i-n_i)} } \\
\leq & (\beta_1-1)^{-2k}\beta_2^{k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)}\beta_2^{n_k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)\left(1-\frac{\hat{v} v}{v-\hat{v}}+\varepsilon\right)}.
\end{align*} Further, fixing
$ \omega\in \Sigma_{\beta}^n,$ the equality (4) implies that for all
$x,x'\in J_{n,\beta}^\varepsilon(\omega),$
\begin{equation*}
|x-x'|\le \left|\frac{T_{\beta}^n x-T_{\beta}^n x'}{\beta^n} \right|\le \frac{2}{\beta^{n(1+v-\varepsilon)}} ,
\end{equation*}and thus
\begin{equation*}
|J_{n,\beta}^\varepsilon(\omega)|\le \frac{2}{\beta^{n(1+v-\varepsilon)}} .
\end{equation*} According to (11), we observe that for any
$K\ge1,$ the family
\begin{align*}
\bigcup_{k=K}^\infty \bigcup_{n_k\geq e^{\frac{k}{C}}}\bigcup_{\substack{\left(n_1, m_1; \cdots; n_{k-1},m_{k-1}\right) \in \Lambda_{k, n_k}(\varepsilon)}} \{J^{\varepsilon}_{n_k, \beta_1}(\omega) &\times J^{\varepsilon}_{n_k, \beta_2}(\nu): \nonumber\\
& (\omega,\nu)\in D_{n_1,m_1;\cdots;n_{k-1},m_{k-1}}\}
\end{align*}forms a covering of
$ \widetilde{E}_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v).$ We proceed to cover
\begin{equation*}
\mathcal{F}_k:=\left\{J_{n_k,\beta_1}^\varepsilon(\omega)\times J_{n_k,\beta_2}^\varepsilon(\nu): (\omega,\nu)\in D_{n_1,m_1;\cdots;n_{k-1},m_{k-1}}\right\}
\end{equation*}and separate it into the following two cases.
Case 1: If
$\beta_1^{1+v} \gt \beta_2$, then choose
$\varepsilon \gt 0$ such that
$\beta_1^{1+v-\varepsilon}\geq \beta_2.$ Thus, by (10), in this case, we get that
\begin{equation*}
\frac{1}{\beta_2^{( 1+v-\varepsilon)n_k}}\le\frac{1}{\beta_1^{( 1+v-\varepsilon)n_k}}\le \frac{1}{\beta_2^{n_k}}.
\end{equation*} Hence, each rectangle
$J_{n_k,\beta_1}^\varepsilon(\omega)\times J_{n_k,\beta_2}^\varepsilon(\nu)\in\mathcal{F}_k$ can be covered by at most
\begin{equation*}
2+\frac{2\beta_1^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)} }{2\beta_2^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)}}\le 2\beta_2^{n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)(1-\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)}
\end{equation*}many squares of side length
$2\beta_2^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)}.$ Then, for any
$s \gt (1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)\left(\frac{v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v}{(1+v-\varepsilon)(v-\hat{v})}+2\varepsilon\right)+1-\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1$, we have
\begin{align}
&\mathcal{H}^s(\widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v))\\ \nonumber
\le &\liminf\limits_{K\rightarrow \infty} \sum_{k=K}^{\infty}\sum_{n_k=e^\frac{k}{C}}^\infty 2n_k^{2k} (\beta_1-1)^{-2k} \beta_2^{k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)}\beta_2^{n_k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)\left(1-\frac{\hat{v} v}{v-\hat{v}}+\varepsilon\right)}\times \\ \nonumber
&\qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad\beta_2^{n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)(1-\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)}\left( 2 \sqrt{2}\beta_2^{-(1+v-\varepsilon)n_k} \right)^s \\ \nonumber
\ll& \liminf\limits_{K\rightarrow \infty}\sum_{k=K}^{\infty}\sum_{n_k=e^\frac{k}{C}}^\infty \beta_2^{n_k\left((1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)\left(1-\frac{v\hat{v}}{v-\hat{v}}+2\varepsilon\right)+(1+v-\varepsilon)(1-\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)-s(1+v-\varepsilon)\right)}\\
\nonumber\le&\frac{1}{1-\beta_2^{t}}\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}(\beta_2^t)^{e^\frac{k}{C}} \lt \infty,\end{align}where
$t=(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)\left(1-\frac{v\hat{v}}{v-\hat{v}}+2\varepsilon\right)+(1+v-\varepsilon)(1-\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)-s(1+v-\varepsilon)$. Here,
$\mathcal{H}^s$ denotes the
$s$-dimensional Hausdorff measure (see [Reference Bishop and Peres2]). As a consequence, letting
$\varepsilon\rightarrow 0$, we deduce that
\begin{align}
\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)=&\dim_{\mathrm H} \widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v) \\
\leq & (1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1) \frac{v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})} +1-\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1 .\nonumber\end{align} On the other hand, each rectangle
$J_{n_k,\beta_1}^\varepsilon(\omega)\times J_{n_k,\beta_2}^\varepsilon(\nu)\in\mathcal{F}_k$ can be covered by a single square of side length
$2\beta_1^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)}$. Thus, using the same method as in (12), for any
$s \gt \frac{1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}{\log_{\beta_2} \beta_1} \cdot \frac{v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v+\varepsilon(v-\hat{v})}{(1+v-\varepsilon)(v-\hat{v})}$, we get
\begin{align*}
\mathcal{H}^{s}(\widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v))&\leq \liminf\limits_{K\rightarrow \infty} \sum_{k=K}^{\infty}\sum_{n_k=e^\frac{k}{C}}^\infty n_k^{2k}(\beta_1-1)^{-2k} \beta_2^{k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)} \\
& \times \beta_2^{n_k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)\left(1-\frac{\hat{v} v}{v-\hat{v}}+\varepsilon\right)} \left(2\sqrt{2}\beta_2^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1} \right)^s \\
& \lt \infty.
\end{align*}Consequently,
\begin{align*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)=\dim_{\mathrm H} \widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v) \leq \frac{1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}{\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1} \frac{v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}. \nonumber
\end{align*} This combined with (13) yields the desired upper bound for
$\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$ in Case 1.
Case 2: If
$\beta_1^{1+v}\leq \beta_2$, then for any
$\varepsilon \gt 0$ we have
$\frac{1}{\beta_2^{n_k}} \lt \frac{1}{\beta_1^{(1+v-\varepsilon)n_k}}. $
Since
$\beta_2^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)}\leq \beta_1^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)} ,$ as in Case 1, (13) still holds. Moreover, each rectangle
$J_{n_k,\beta_1}^\varepsilon(\omega)\times J_{n_k,\beta_2}^\varepsilon(\nu)\in \mathcal{F}_k$ can be covered by a single square of side length
$2\beta_1^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)}.$
Combining this with
$\beta_2^{-n_k} \leq \beta_1^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)},$ we conclude that each such square covers at least
\begin{equation*}
\frac{2\beta_1^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)}}{\beta_2^{-n_k} }-2\ge \frac{1}{2}\frac{2\beta_1^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)}}{\beta_2^{-n_k} } = \beta_2^{n_k(1-(1+v-\varepsilon) \log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)}=:t_{n_k}(\omega)
\end{equation*}many sets
where
$ I_{{n_k},\beta_2}(\nu_1),\cdots ,I_{{n_k},\beta_2}(\nu_{t_{n_k}(\omega)})$ are consecutive cylinders of order
$n_k.$ Thus, the set
\begin{equation*}
\bigcup_{(\omega,\nu)\in D_{n_1,m_1;\cdots;n_{k-1},m_{k-1}} } J_{n_k,\beta_1}^\varepsilon(\omega)\times J_{n_k,\beta_2}^\varepsilon(\nu) \end{equation*}can be covered by
\begin{align*}&\left(\frac{\beta_1}{\beta_1-1}\right)^{k} \left(\frac{\beta_2}{\beta_2-1}\right)^{k} \beta_1^{n_k- \sum_{i=1}^{k-1} (m_i-n_i)} \beta_2^{{n_k- \sum_{i=1}^{k-1} (m_i-n_i)} } \beta_2^{-n_k(1-(1+v-\varepsilon) \log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)}\\
&\leq (\beta_1-1)^{-2k} \beta_2^{k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)}\beta_2^{n_k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)\left(1-\frac{\hat{v} v}{v-\hat{v}}+\varepsilon\right)}\beta_2^{-n_k(1-(1+v-\varepsilon) \log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)}
\end{align*}many squares of side length
$2\beta_1^{-{n_k}(1+v-\varepsilon)}.$
Hence, for any
$s \gt \frac{(3\varepsilon+1)(v-\hat{v})-v\hat{v}}{(1+v-\varepsilon)(v-\hat{v}) }+\frac{3\varepsilon(v-\hat{v})-v\hat{v}}{(1+v-\varepsilon)(v-\hat{v})\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}+1,$ we have
\begin{align*}
\mathcal{H}^{s}(\widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v))
&\leq \liminf\limits_{K\rightarrow \infty} \sum_{k=K}^{\infty}\sum_{n_k=e^\frac{k}{C}}^\infty n_k^{2k}\beta_2^{k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)}\beta_2^{n_k(1+\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)(1-\frac{\hat{v} v}{v-\hat{v}}+\varepsilon)}\\
& \times \beta_2^{-n_k(1-(1+v-\varepsilon) \log_{\beta_2}\beta_1)} \left( 2 \sqrt{2}\beta_2^{-n_k(1+v-\varepsilon)\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1} \right)^s\\
& \lt \infty.
\end{align*}Therefore,
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)=\dim_{\mathrm H} \widetilde{E}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)\leq\frac{v-\hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})} -\frac{v\hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1}+1 .
\end{equation*} Combining this result with (13), we obtain the required upper bound for
$\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$ in Case 2.
3.2. Lower bound
The method for determining the lower bound of
$\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$ is classical. Firstly, we construct a Cantor subset
$F_\infty$ of the set
$E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$; secondly, we define a suitable mass distribution
$\mu$ supported on
$F_\infty$; thirdly, we estimate the
$\mu$-measure of a general ball; and finally, we apply the following mass distribution principle to complete the proof.
Lemma 3.4. (Mass distribution principle [Reference Falconer7])
Let
$\mu$ be a probability measure supported on a measurable set
$\mathcal{F}$. Suppose there are positive constants
$c$ and
$r_0$ such that
for any ball
$B(x,r)$ with radius
$r\le r_0$ and center
$x\in F$. Then
$\mathcal{H}^s(F)\ge 1/c$ and thus
$\dim_{\mathrm H} F\ge s$.
3.2.1. Cantor subset construction
According to Theorem 1.3 and the fact that
$E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},\infty)\subset
\bigcap\limits_{v \gt 0} W_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(v) $, we obtain that
Since
$E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(0,0)$ is of full Lebesgue measure and
$\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)=0$ for
$\hat{v} \gt \frac{v}{1+v}$, we only need to consider the case
$0\leq\hat{v}\leq \frac{v}{1+v} \lt v \lt \infty$.
For such
$v$ and
$\hat{v},$ choose two sequences
$\{n_k\}_{k\geq1}$ and
$\{m_k\}_{k\geq1}$ satisfying the following conditions:
(1)
$n_k \lt m_k \lt n_{k+1}$ and
$\{m_k-n_k\}_{k\geq1}$ is non-decreasing.(2) One has
(14)
\begin{equation} \lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_k}=v~\text{and}~\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_{k+1}}=\hat{v}.\end{equation}
Indeed, when
$\hat{v} \gt 0$, we can take
\begin{equation*}
n_1=1,~ n_{k+1}=\left\lfloor \frac{v}{\hat{v}}n_k\right \rfloor+2,~ m_k=\lfloor (1+v)n_k \rfloor+1.
\end{equation*} When
$\hat{v}=0$, we can take
\begin{equation*}
n_k=2^{2^k},~ m_k=\lfloor (1+v)n_k \rfloor+1.
\end{equation*} Recall that
$\beta_2\geq \beta_1 \gt 1$ and for each
$i=1,2$,
$\beta_{i,N}$ is the unique real number satisfying the equation
\begin{equation*}
1=\frac{\varepsilon^*_1(1,\beta_i)}{z}+\cdots+\frac{\varepsilon^*_N(1,\beta_i)}{z^N},
\end{equation*}where
$\varepsilon^*_N(1,\beta_i) \gt 0.$
We will construct a tree-like Cantor set
$F_\infty$ by addressing the
$\beta$-expansion sequences of each point in
$F_\infty$ step by step. To this end, we construct a sequence of families
$\{\mathcal{F}_n\}_{n \geq 1}$ consisting of Cartesian products of cylinders, and the Cantor set is defined as
\begin{equation*}
F_\infty = \bigcap_{n=1}^\infty \bigcup_{Q_n \in \mathcal{F}_n} Q_n.
\end{equation*}The first level of the Cantor set.
• Step
$1_1$. Construct rectangles.
Define
$l_1=n_1+2N+1$ and
$h_1=l_1+m_1-n_1+2N+1.$ Let
\begin{equation*}
B_1(\beta_1)=\{\omega_1=\xi_1 0^N10^N\varepsilon_1 0^N10^N \in\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{h_1}: \varepsilon_1=\underbrace{0\cdots 0}_{m_1-n_1 },\xi_1 \in\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{n_1}\},
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
B_1(\beta_2)=\{\nu_1=\zeta_1 0^N10^N\varepsilon_1 0^N10^N \in\Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{h_1}: \varepsilon_1=\underbrace{0\cdots 0}_{m_1-n_1 },\zeta_1 \in\Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{n_1}\}.
\end{equation*} Here, the block
$0^N$ is inserted to guarantee that the concatenation
$\omega0^N\varepsilon$ is still
$\beta_i$-admissible for
$i=1,2$ for any
$\omega\in \Sigma_{\beta_{i,N}}^{n}$ and
$\varepsilon\in \Sigma_{\beta_{i,N}}^{m}$ (see Lemma 2.5). The digit
$1$ is inserted to control the run length of consecutive zeros.
For each
$(\omega_1,\nu_1) \in B_1(\beta_1) \times B_1(\beta_2)$, the rectangle
is called a basic rectangle of order
$1.$ Then, define
$\mathcal{R}_1(Q_0) $ as the family of basic rectangles generated by
$Q_0=[0,1]^2,$ that is,
• Step
$2_1$. Dividing.
Let
\begin{equation}\tilde{h}_1= \lfloor h_1 \log_{\beta_1} \beta_2\rfloor+2N+1\end{equation}and choose
$\tilde{t}_1\ge0$ and
$0\leq \tilde{r}_1 \lt m_1-n_1$ such that
Then, for any
$\omega_1\in B_{1}(\beta_1),$ set
\begin{align*}
D_1(\beta_1,\omega_1)=\{{\tilde{\omega}_1}=&\omega_1 (\xi_1' 0^N10^N) \cdots (\xi_{\tilde{t}_1}' 0^N10^N) (\tau_{1}' 0^N10^N)\in\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{h}_1}:\\ &\omega_1 \in B_1(\beta_1),~\tau_{1}'\in \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{r}_1 },~\xi_j' \in\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_1-n_1} ~\text{for}~ 1\leq j \leq \tilde{t}_1 \}.
\end{align*} For each
$(\tilde{\omega}_1,\nu_1) \in D_1(\beta_1,\omega_1) \times B_1(\beta_2)$, it follows from (15) that
\begin{equation*} |I_{\tilde{h}_1,\beta_1} (\tilde{\omega}_1)|=\frac{1}{\beta_1^{\tilde{h}_1}} \asymp\frac{1}{\beta_2^{h_1}} =|I_{h_1,\beta_2}(\nu_1)|.\end{equation*} The implied constant in the
$\asymp$ depends only on
$N,$
$\beta_1$ and
$\beta_2.$ Then, we write
\begin{equation*}
Q_1=Q_1(\tilde{\omega}_1,\nu_1):=I_{\tilde{h}_1,\beta_1} (\tilde{\omega}_1) \times I_{h_1,\beta_2}(\nu_1)
\end{equation*}and call the square
$Q_1$ a basic square of order
$1.$ Denote by
$\mathcal{Q}_1(R_1)$ the family of the basic squares
$Q_1\subset R_1$, i.e.
With these notation, the first sub-level
$\mathcal{F}_1$ is defined as
\begin{align*}
\mathcal{F}_1=&\{Q_1\in\mathcal{Q}_1(R_1):R_1\in \mathcal{R}_1([0,1]^2)\} \\
=& \{Q_1(\tilde{\omega}_1,\nu_1) : (\omega_1,\nu_1)\in B_1(\beta_1)\times B_1(\beta_2)~\text{and}~\tilde{\omega}_1\in D_1(\beta_1,\omega_1)\}.
\end{align*} From Level
$k-1$ to Level
$k.$
Suppose that
$\mathcal{F}_{k-1}$ has been defined. For each basic square
$Q_{k-1}\in\mathcal{F}_{k-1},$ we will define a sub-family
$\mathcal{F}_k(Q_{k-1}),$ and then let
Let
$Q_{k-1}$ be an arbitrary square in
$\mathcal{F}_{k-1},$ written as
\begin{equation*}
Q_{k-1}:=I_{\tilde{h}_{k-1},\beta_1}(\tilde{\omega}_{k-1})\times I_{h_{k-1},\beta_2}(\nu_{k-1}).
\end{equation*} • Step
$1_{k}$. Construct rectangles.
Take integers
$t_{k-1}\ge 0$ and
$0\leq r_{k-1} \lt m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}$ such that
Then let
\begin{align*}
l_{k}=&h_{k-1}+t_{k-1}(m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}+2N+1)+r_{k-1}+2N+1\\
=&n_{k} +2N+1+\sum_{i=1}^{k-1} (t_i+2)(2N+1)
\end{align*}and
\begin{align*}
h_{k}=l_{k}+m_{k}-n_{k}+2N+1=m_{k} +2(2N+1)+\sum_{i=1}^{k-1} (t_i+2)(2N+1).
\end{align*} Note that
$\log _{\beta_2}{\beta_1} \gt \frac{\hat{v}}{v}(1+v)$ and the equalities in (14) hold. By passing to a subsequence if necessary, we may assume that
$\{n_k\}_{k\geq1}$ and
$\{m_k\}_{k\geq1}$ are sufficiently sparse that
\begin{equation*}
\frac{1}{\beta_1^{l_k}} \le \frac{1}{\beta_1^{\tilde{h}_{k-1}+2N+1}}~\text{for all }~k\ge 2.
\end{equation*} Thus, there exist
$\bar{t}_{k-1}\ge 0$ and
$0\leq \bar{r}_{k-1} \lt m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}$ such that
Then, set
\begin{align*}
&B_{k}(\beta_1,\tilde{\omega}_{k-1})\\
=&\Big\{\omega_k=\tilde{\omega}_{k-1}(\xi_1 0^N10^N) \cdots (\xi_{\bar{t}_{k-1}}0^N10^N) (\tau_{k-1}0^N10^N) (\varepsilon_{k}0^N10^N) \in \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{h_{k}}: \\
&\quad \tilde{\omega}_{k-1}\in D_{k-1}(\beta_1,\omega_{k-1} ),~\varepsilon_{k} =\underbrace{0\cdots 0}_{m_{k}-n_{k} },
\tau_{k-1}\in \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\bar{r}_{k-1}}, \xi_j\in \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}} \nonumber\\
&\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\text{for}~ 1\leq j \leq \bar{t}_{k-1}\Big\},
\end{align*}and
\begin{align*}
&B_k(\beta_2,\nu_{k-1})\\
=&\big\{\nu_k=\nu_{k-1}(\zeta_1 0^N10^N) \cdots (\zeta_{t_{k-1}}0^N10^N) (\gamma_{k-1}0^N10^N) (\varepsilon_{k}0^N10^N) \in \Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{h_k}:\\ &\quad \nu_{k-1} \in B_{k-1}(\beta_2,\nu_{k-2}),~\varepsilon_k=\underbrace{0\cdots 0}_{m_k-n_k},~\gamma_{k-1}\in \Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{r_{k-1}},~\zeta_j \in\Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}} \nonumber\\
&\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad \text{for}~ 1\leq j \leq t_{k-1} \big\}.
\end{align*} For each
$(\omega_k,\nu_k) \in B_{k}(\beta_1,\tilde{\omega}_{k-1}) \times B_k(\beta_2,\nu_{k-1})$, the rectangle
is called a basic rectangle of order
$k.$ Denote by
$\mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1}) $ the family of basic rectangles generated by
$Q_{k-1},$ i.e.
• Step
$2_{k}$. Dividing.
Define
\begin{equation}
\tilde{h}_k = \left\lfloor h_k \log_{\beta_1} \beta_2 \right\rfloor+2N+1,
\end{equation}and select
$\tilde{t}_k \ge 0$ and
$0 \leq \tilde{r}_k \lt m_k - n_k$ such that
Fix
$\omega_k \in B_{k}(\beta_1,\tilde{\omega}_{k-1})$, and set
\begin{align*}
D_k(\beta_1,\omega_k)=\{{\tilde{\omega}_k}=&\omega_k (\xi_k' 0^N10^N) \cdots (\xi_{\tilde{t}_k}' 0^N10^N) (\tau_{k}' 0^N10^N)\in\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{h}_k}:\\
&\omega_k \in B_{k}(\beta_1,\tilde{\omega}_{k-1}),~\tau_{k}'\in \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{r}_k},~\xi_j' \in\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_k-n_k} ~\text{for}~ 1\leq j \leq \tilde{t}_k \}.
\end{align*} For each
$(\tilde{\omega}_k,\nu_k) \in D_k(\beta_1,\omega_k) \times B_k(\beta_2,\nu_{k-1})$, we define
\begin{equation*}
Q_k=Q_k(\tilde{\omega}_k,\nu_k):=I_{\tilde{h}_k,\beta_1} (\tilde{\omega}_k) \times I_{h_k,\beta_2}(\nu_k)
\end{equation*}and we call the square
$Q_k(\tilde{\omega}_k,\nu_k)$ a basic square. Note that
$ Q_k(\tilde{\omega}_k,\nu_k)\subset R_k(\omega_k,\nu_k).$ Then, for each
$R_{k}=R_k(\omega_k,\nu_k)\in\mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1}),$ denote the family of basic squares
$Q_k \subset R_{k}$ by
$\mathcal{Q}_k(R_{k}) $, i.e.
Then the
$k$th level,
$\mathcal{F}_k$, is defined as
where, for a fixed
$Q_{k-1}=Q_{k-1}(\omega_{k-1},v_{k-1})\in \mathcal{F}_{k-1},$
\begin{align*}\mathcal{F}_{k}(Q_{k-1})=&\left\{Q_k: Q_k\in \mathcal{Q}_k(R_k)~\text{and}~R_k \in \mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1})\right\} \\
=&\left\{Q_k(\tilde{\omega}_k,\nu_k): (\omega_k, \nu_k) \in B_{k}\left(\beta_1,\omega_{k-1}\right) \times B_{k}\left(\beta_2,v_{k-1}\right)~\text{and}~ \tilde{\omega}_k \in D_{k}\left(\beta_1,\omega_{k}\right)\right\}.\end{align*}Finally, the desired Cantor set is defined as
\begin{equation*}
F_\infty:=\bigcap_{k\geq1}\bigcup_{Q_k\in \mathcal{F}_k}Q_{k}.
\end{equation*}Remark 3.5. Under the assumption
$\log_{\beta_2}{\beta_1} \gt \frac{\hat{v}}{v}(1 + v),$ we have that (16) holds. Consequently, the Cantor subset
$F_\infty$ is well defined. However, without the condition
$\log_{\beta_2}{\beta_1} \gt \frac{\hat{v}}{v}(1 + v),$ the lower bound estimate of
$\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v)$ is not known, and the methods developed in the present paper are likely to be ineffective.
Subsequently, we summarise the properties of the Cantor set
$F_\infty$ for later use.
Lemma 3.6. Let
$k\ge 1$ and
$Q_{k-1}\in \mathcal{F}_{k-1}.$
(1) For any
$R_k\in \mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1})$ and
$Q_k \in \mathcal{Q}_k(R_k),$ they are of the form
with lengths satisfying
\begin{equation*} R_k=I_{h_k,\beta_1} (\omega_k) \times I_{h_k,\beta_2}(\nu_k)~\text{and}~ Q_k=I_{\tilde{h}_k,\beta_1} (\tilde{\omega}_k) \times I_{h_k,\beta_2}(\nu_k),\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}\frac{1}{\beta_1^{\tilde{h}_k}}=|I_{\tilde{h}_k,\beta_1}(\tilde{\omega}_k)|\asymp|I_{h_k,\beta_2} (\nu_k) |=\frac{1}{\beta_2^{h_k}} \lt \frac{1}{\beta_1^{h_k}}
=|I_{h_k,\beta_1} (\omega_k)| .\end{equation*}(2) The rectangles in
$\mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1})$ are
$\frac{1}{\beta_i^{l_k}}$-separated in the
$i$th direction; the basic squares in
$\mathcal{Q}_k(R_k)$ are
$\frac{1}{\beta_1^{\tilde{h}_k}}$-separated in the first direction.(3) One has
and for any
\begin{equation*}\sharp \mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1})=(\sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}})^{\bar{t}_{k-1}} \cdot \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\bar{r}_{k-1}} \cdot (\sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}})^{t_{k-1}} \cdot \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{r_{k-1}} \end{equation*}
$R_k \in \mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1}),$
\begin{equation*}\sharp \mathcal{Q}_k(R_{k})=(\sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}})^{\tilde{t}_{k}} \cdot \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{r}_{k}}.
\end{equation*}
Proof. These results follow directly from (17), Lemma 2.5 and the construction of Cantor set
$F_\infty.$
Proposition 3.7. One has
$
F_{\infty} \subset E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v).
$
Proof. By the construction of
$ F_{\infty} $ and the same method as in the proof of Lemma 3.3, it follows that for any
$(x,y)\in F_\infty,$
\begin{equation*}
\hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty}\frac{h_k-l_k-1}{l_{k+1}-N}= \lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{m_k-n_k+2N}{n_{k+1}+\sum_{i=1}^{k} (t_i+2)(2N+1)+N+1},
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty}\frac{h_k-l_k-1}{l_{k}-N}=\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{m_k-n_k+2N}{n_{k}+\sum_{i=1}^{k-1} (t_i+2)(2N+1)+N+1} .
\end{equation*}Thus, by applying the Stolz–Cesàro Theorem,
\begin{equation}
\lim _{k \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\sum_{i=1}^k t_i}{n_{k+1}}=\lim _{k \rightarrow \infty} \frac{t_k}{n_{k+1}-n_k}=0.
\end{equation}Hence,
\begin{equation} \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty}\frac{h_k-l_k-1}{l_{k+1}-N}=\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_{k+1}}=\hat{v},
\end{equation}and
\begin{equation}
v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x,y)=\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty}\frac{h_k-l_k-1}{l_{k}-N}=\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_k}=v .
\end{equation}Therefore,
3.2.2. Measure distribution
The mass distribution to be defined comes from the following considerations:
• Since the measure is supported on
$F_{\infty}$, the total measure of the rectangles
$R_k$ generated by the same basic square
$Q_{k-1}$ is equal to the measure of this square. Note that such rectangles
$R_k$ are of the same size. Therefore, it is natural to distribute the mass of
$Q_{k-1}$ equally to the rectangles
$R_k\in \mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1})$.
• For the same reason, the measure of
$R_k$ is equally distributed to
$\mathcal{Q}_k(R_k)$.
In the following, we distribute a measure
$\mu$ on
$F_{\infty}$.
The measure of
$R_1\in \mathcal{R}_1(Q_0)$ is defined as
\begin{equation*}
\mu(R_{1} ):= \frac{1}{\sharp \mathcal{R}_1(Q_0)}=\frac{1}{\sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{n_1}\cdot \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{n_1}} ,
\end{equation*}and for any
$Q_1 \in \mathcal{Q}_1(R_1)$, we define
\begin{equation*}
\mu\left(Q_1\right):=\frac{\mu\left(R_1\right)}{\sharp \mathcal{Q}_1(R_1)} =\frac{1}{\sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{n_1}\cdot \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{n_1}\cdot (\sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_{1}-n_{1}})^{\tilde{t}_{1}} \cdot \sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{r}_{1}} } .
\end{equation*} Assume that the measure of basic squares
$Q_{k-1}\in \mathcal{F}_{k-1}$ has already been defined. For any basic rectangle
$R_{k}\in \mathcal{F}_k,$ there exists a unique basic square
$Q_{k-1}\in\mathcal{F}_{k-1}$ such that
$R_{k}\in\mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1}).$ Then, we define
\begin{align*}
\mu\left(R_{k}\right)
:=&\frac{\mu\left(Q_{k-1}\right)}{\sharp \mathcal{R}_k(Q_{k-1})}\\
=&\frac{1}{\sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{n_1}\cdot \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{n_1} \cdot \prod_{l=1}^{k-1} [ ( \sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_l-n_l} )^{\tilde{t}_{l}+\bar{t}_{l}}\cdot \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{r}_l}\cdot\sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\bar{r}_l}\cdot(\sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{m_l-n_l} )^{t_{l}}\cdot \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{r_l}]}.
\end{align*} For any basic square
$Q_k\in \mathcal{Q}_k(R_k),$ we set
\begin{equation*}
\mu(Q_{k} ):=\frac{\mu(R_k)}{\sharp \mathcal{Q}_k(R_k)}=\frac{\mu(R_k)}{(\sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}})^{\tilde{t}_{k}} \cdot \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{r}_{k}} } .
\end{equation*} For any
$n\ge1$ and any
$n$th order rectangle
$I_{n,\beta_1}(\omega_n) \times I_{n,\beta_2}(\nu_n)$ with
$ I_{n,\beta_1}(\omega_n) \times I_{n,\beta_2}(\nu_n) \cap \mathcal{F}_\infty \neq \emptyset$, let
$k \geq 0$ denote the integer such that
$h_k \lt n\leq h_{k+1}$ (by setting
$h_0=0$). To reach a measure, we set
\begin{equation*}
\mu(I_{n,\beta_1}(\omega_n) \times I_{n,\beta_2}(\nu_n) ) =\sum_{R_{k+1} \subset I_{n,\beta_1}(\omega_n) \times I_{n,\beta_2}(\nu_n) } \mu(R_{k+1}),
\end{equation*}where the summation is taken over all basic rectangles
$R_{k+1}\in \mathcal{F}_{k+1}$ contained in
$ I_{n,\beta_1}(\omega_n) \times I_{n,\beta_2}(\nu_n)$.
Then by Kolmogorov’s consistency theorem,
$\mu$ can be uniquely extended to a probability measure supported on
$F_{\infty}$.
3.2.3. Measure of basic squares in
$\mathcal{F}_k$
To apply the mass distribution principle (Lemma 3.4), we first analyse the relationship between
$\mu(Q_k)$ and
$|Q_k|$.
By (17) and Lemma 3.6 (1), we conclude that
\begin{equation*}
\frac{1}{\beta_2^{h_k}} \cdot \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\beta_1^{2N+2}}\le |Q_k|=\left|I_{\tilde{h}_k,\beta_1} (\tilde{\omega}_k) \times I_{h_k,\beta_2}(\nu_k) \right|\le \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\beta_2^{h_k}}.
\end{equation*}From Lemma 2.2, it follows that
\begin{align}
&\liminf\limits_{k\rightarrow\infty} \frac{\log\mu(Q_k)}{\log |Q_k|} \\
= & \liminf\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{1}{h_k}\cdot\left[\log_{\beta_2} \sharp \Sigma _{\beta_{1,N}}^{n_1}+\log_{\beta_2} \sharp \Sigma _{\beta_{2,N}}^{n_1}+ \tilde{t}_k \log_{\beta_2} \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_{k-1}-n_{k-1}}+\log_{\beta_2} \sharp\Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{r}_k} \right. \nonumber\\
&+\sum_{l=1}^{k-1} ((\tilde{t}_l+\bar{t}_l) \log_{\beta_2} \sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{m_l-n_l} + \log_{\beta_2} \sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\tilde{r}_l}+\log_{\beta_2} \sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{1,N}}^{\bar{r}_l}\nonumber\\
&+\left.t_l \log_{\beta_2} \sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{m_l-n_l}+\log_{\beta_2} \sharp \Sigma_{\beta_{2,N}}^{r_l}) \right] \nonumber\\
=& \liminf\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{(l_k-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i-l_i)- 2N-1)(\log_{\beta_2} {\beta_{1,N}}+\log_{\beta_2} {\beta_{2,N}} )}{h_k} \nonumber\\
&- \liminf\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty}\frac{\sum\limits_{i=1}^{k-1}[(\tilde{t}_i+\bar{t}_i+2)(2N+1)\log_{\beta_2}\beta_{1,N}+(t_i+1)(2N+1)\log_{\beta_2}\beta_{2,N}]}{h_k}\nonumber\\
&+ \liminf\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty}\frac{[\tilde{h}_k -h_k-(\tilde{t}_k+1)(2N+1)] \log_{\beta_2} \beta_{1,N}}{h_k}.\nonumber\end{align}Using the Stolz–Cesàro Theorem, we can assert that
\begin{align}
\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow\infty} \frac{l_k-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i-l_i)}{h_k} =&\lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{l_1+\sum_{i=1}^{k-1} (l_{i+1}-h_i)}{h_k} \\ \nonumber
=& \lim\limits_{k\rightarrow \infty} \frac{l_k-h_{k-1}}{h_k-h_{k-1}} \\ \nonumber
=& \frac{v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})},
\end{align}where the last equality follows from (19) and (20). Note that
$\tilde{t}_k+\bar{t}_k\le t_k+2$ for all
$k\ge1$. Combining (17), (18), (21) and (22), we have
\begin{equation*}
\liminf\limits_{k\rightarrow\infty} \frac{\log\mu(Q_k)}{\log |Q_k|}=\frac{(\log_{\beta_2} {\beta_{1,N}}+\log_{\beta_2} {\beta_{2,N}} )(v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v)}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}+1-\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1.
\end{equation*} Fix
$\delta \gt 0$, and let
$s=\frac{(\log_{\beta_2} {\beta_{1}}+1 )(v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v)}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}+ 1-\log_{\beta_2}\beta_1 -\delta$. Hence for any
$k \gg 1$, we have
\begin{equation}
\mu\left(Q_k\right) \leq\left|Q_k\right|^{s}\ll{\beta_2}^{-sh_k}.
\end{equation}3.2.4. Measure of a general ball
Let
$\varepsilon \gt 0.$ Since (20) holds, there exists
$k_0\in\mathbb{N}$ such that for any
$k\ge k_0$,
\begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{ll}
\frac{1}{\beta_1^{h_k}} \lt \frac{1}{\beta_2^{l_k}} &\text{if}~\beta_1^{1+v} \gt \beta_2;\\
\frac{1}{\beta_1^{h_k}} \gt \frac{1}{\beta_2^{l_k}} &\text{if}~\beta_1^{1+v} \lt \beta_2;\\
\frac{1}{\beta_2^{l_k(1+\varepsilon)}}\le\frac{1}{\beta_1^{h_k}}\le \frac{1}{\beta_2^{l_k(1-\varepsilon)}} & \text{if}~\beta_1^{1+v}= \beta_2.
\end{array}
\right.\end{equation*} Set
$ r_0=\frac{1}{\beta_1^{\tilde{h}_{k_0}}}.$ For any
$\mathbf{z}=\left(x, y\right) \in F_{\infty}$ and
$r \lt r_0,$ we estimate the measure of the ball
$B(\mathbf{z}, r).$
Since
$\mu$ is a probability measure supported on the set
$F_{\infty}$,
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r))=0$ whenever
$B(\mathbf{z}, r) \cap F_{\infty} = \emptyset$. If the ball
$B(\mathbf{z}, r)$ intersects only one element in
$\mathcal{F}_{k}$ for any
$k \gt 0$, then by (23) we have
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r))=0$. So we can take an integer
$k$ such that the ball
$B(\mathbf{z}, r)$ intersects with only one element in
$\mathcal{F}_{k-1}$, and at least with two elements in
$\mathcal{F}_{k}$. Let
$Q_{k-1}$ be the unique element in
$\mathcal{F}_{k-1}$ that intersects the ball
$B(\mathbf{z}, r)$.
If
$r \ge \beta_2^{-h_{k-1}}$, then
\begin{equation*}
\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) \leq \mu\left(Q_{k-1}\right) \ll{\beta_2}^{-sh_{k-1}} \leq r^s.
\end{equation*} Without loss of generality, assume that
$r \leq \beta_2^{-h_{k-1}}.$ Combining Lemma 3.6 (2) with the fact that the ball
$B(\mathbf{z}, r)$ intersects at least two elements in
$\mathcal{F}_{k},$ we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\frac{1}{\beta_2^{h_k}} \asymp \frac{1}{\beta_1^{\tilde{h}_k}}\le r \lt \frac{1}{\beta_2^{h_{k-1}}},
\end{equation*}which implies
$k\ge k_0.$ Based on the above discussion, we consider the following three cases.
Case 1. If
$\beta_1^{1+v} \gt \beta_2$, this corresponds to Case 1 of the upper bound. In this case, we have
\begin{equation*}
\beta_2^{-h_{k-1}} \geq \beta_1^{-l_k} \geq \beta_2^{-l_k} \gt \beta_1^{-h_k} \geq \beta_2^{-h_k}.
\end{equation*}We consider four subcases as follows.
Case 1.1.
$\beta_2^{-h_{k-1}} \geq r \geq \beta_1^{-l_k}$.
We estimate the number
$T$ of basic squares
$Q_k\in \mathcal{F}_k(Q_{k-1})$ that intersect
$B(\mathbf{z}, r).$ By the volume calculation and Lemma 3.6 (2), we have
\begin{align*}
&\sharp\left\{R_k \in \mathcal{R}_k\left(Q_{k-1}\right): R_k \cap B(\mathbf{z}, r) \neq \emptyset\right\} \\
\leq &\left(2 \cdot r \cdot \beta_1^{l_k}+2\right)\left(2 \cdot r \cdot \beta_2^{l_k}+2\right).
\end{align*}Thus,
Hence we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r))
&\leq T \cdot \mu(Q_k)\ll r^2 \cdot \beta_1^{l_k}\beta_2^{l_k} \cdot \mu(R_k)\\
&= r^2 \cdot \beta_1^{l_k}\cdot \beta_2^{l_k} \cdot \beta_1^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(\tilde{t}_i+\bar{t}_i+2)(2 N+1)]} \\
&\times \beta_2^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(t_i+1)(2 N+1)]} .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} Combining (18), if
$t$ satisfies
\begin{equation}
t\leq\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[2+\frac{l_k \log \beta_1 + l_k \log \beta_2 - [l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{\log r}\right]=:t_1,
\end{equation}then for any sufficiently small
$r$, we get
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) \ll r^t$ for every
$t\leq t_1$.
According to the Stolz–Cesàro Theorem, we can deduce that
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\lim _{k \rightarrow \infty} \frac{l_k-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}\left(h_i-l_i\right)}{l_k}
& =\lim _{k \rightarrow \infty} \frac{l_k-h_{k-1}}{l_k-l_{k-1}} \\
& =\frac{v-\hat{v}-\hat{v} v}{v-\hat{v}},
\end{split}
\end{equation}where the final equality follows from (19) and (20).
Notice that by applying (25), we have
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
t_1&\leq \liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty}\left[ 2 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_1 + l_k \log \beta_2 - [l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i -l_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-{h_{k-1}} \log \beta_2}\right] \\
&=2-\left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)\frac{v^2}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}that is
\begin{equation*}
t\leq 2-\left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)\frac{v^2}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}.
\end{equation*}Hence, (24) holds.
Case 1.2.
$\beta_1^{-l_k} \gt r \geq \beta_2^{-l_k}$.
Using the same method as in Case 1.1, we have
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r))
&\leq T \cdot \mu(Q_k)\ll r\beta_2^{l_k} \cdot \mu(R_k) \\
&\ll r^2 \cdot \beta_2^{l_k} \cdot \beta_1^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(\tilde{t}_i+\bar{t}_i+2)(2 N+1)]} \\
&\times \beta_2^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(t_i+1)(2 N+1)]}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} Combining (18), if
$t$ satisfies
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
t&\leq \liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{\log r}\right] \\
&= \min \left\{\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - \left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-l_k \log \beta_1}\right],\right. \\
&\left.\quad \liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - \left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-l_k \log \beta_2}\right]\right\} \\
&=:t_2,
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}for any sufficiently small
$r$, it follows that
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) \ll r^t$ for every
$t\leq t_2$. Then, by combining (25), one has
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - \left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-l_k \log \beta_1}\right]\\
= & 1-\log _{\beta_1}{\beta_2} + (1+\log _{\beta_1}{\beta_2}) \frac{v- \hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - \left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-l_k \log \beta_2}\right]\\
= &(1+\log _{\beta_2}{\beta_1}) \frac{v- \hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}That is to say,
\begin{equation*}
t\leq \min \left\{1-\log _{\beta_1}{\beta_2} + (1+\log _{\beta_1}{\beta_2}) \frac{v- \hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}}, ~(1+\log _{\beta_2}{\beta_1})\frac{v- \hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}} \right\}.
\end{equation*}Therefore, (26) holds.
Case 1.3.
$\beta_2^{-l_k} \gt r \gt \beta_1^{-h_k}$.
In this situation, the ball
$B(\mathbf{z}, r)$ intersects exactly one rectangle. Hence we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r))
&\leq T \cdot \mu(Q_k)\\
&\leq \beta_1^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(\tilde{t}_i+\bar{t}_i+2)(2 N+1)]} \\
&\times \beta_2^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(t_i+1)(2 N+1)]}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} Combining (18), if
$t$ satisfies
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
t&\leq \liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \frac{-\left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{\log r} \\
&= \min \left\{\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty}\frac{\left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{l_k \log \beta_2},\right. \\
&\left.\quad \liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty}\frac{\left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{h_k \log \beta_1}\right\}=:t_3,
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}for any sufficiently small
$r$, it can be shown that
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) \leq r^t$ holds for every
$t\leq t_3$. Using (22) and (25), we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty}\frac{\left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{l_k \log \beta_2}
= (1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1) \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}}
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty}\frac{\left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{h_k \log \beta_1}
= (1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2)\cdot\frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1 + v)(v - \hat{v})}.
\end{equation*}Thus, we have
\begin{equation*}
t\leq \min \left\{(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1)\frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}},(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2)\cdot\frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1 + v)(v - \hat{v})}\right\} .
\end{equation*}Hence, (27) holds.
Case 1.4.
$ \beta_1^{-h_k} \geq r \geq \beta_2^{-h_k} $.
In this situation, we deduce that
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r))
&\leq T \cdot \mu(Q_k) \leq \frac{r}{\beta_2^{-h_k}} \cdot\mu(R_k) \cdot \frac{\beta_2^{-h_k}}{\beta_1^{-h_k}}\\
&=r\cdot\beta_1^{h_k} \beta_1^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(\tilde{t}_i+\bar{t}_i+2)(2 N+1)]} \\
&\times \beta_2^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(t_i+1)(2 N+1)]}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} Combining (18), if
$t$ satisfies
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
t
&\leq \min \left\{\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{h_k \log \beta_1 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-h_k \log \beta_1}\right],\right. \\
&\left. \quad \liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{h_k \log \beta_1 - \left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-h_k \log \beta_2}\right]\right\} \\
&=:t_4,
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}then for any sufficiently small
$r$, we have
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) \leq r^t$ for every
$t\leq t_4$. By applying (22), we can obtain
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{h_k \log \beta_1 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-h_k \log \beta_1}\right]\\
= & (1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2)\frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v - \hat{v})},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{h_k \log \beta_1 - \left[n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)\right](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-h_k \log \beta_2}\right]\\
=& 1 - \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1 + (1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1)\frac{v- \hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1 + v)(v - \hat{v})}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}Equivalently, if
\begin{equation*}
t\leq \min \left\{(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2)\frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v - \hat{v})}, 1 - \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1 + (1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1)\frac{v- \hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1 + v)(v - \hat{v})}\right\},
\end{equation*}then (28) holds.
From the four cases presented above, we deduce that for any
$t\leq \min\{t_1,t_2,t_{3},t_{4}\}$,
Thus, applying Lemma 3.4, we get
Then, by the arbitrariness of
$t$, we have
Using the inequality
$\hat{v} \leq \frac{v}{1+v}$, we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\min\{t_1,t_2,t_{3},t_{4}\}\\
=& \min \left\{\left(1+\log _{\beta_1} {\beta_2}\right)\frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v - \hat{v})},1 - \log _{\beta_2} {\beta_1} + \left(1+\log _{\beta_2} {\beta_1}\right) \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1 + v)(v - \hat{v})}\right\}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} Hence, when
$ \beta_1^{1+v} \gt \beta_2$, we conclude that
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
&\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v) \\
\geq& \min \left\{\frac{(1+\log _{\beta_1} {\beta_2})(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1+v)(v - \hat{v})},1 - \log _{\beta_2} {\beta_1} + \frac{(1+\log _{\beta_2} {\beta_1})(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1 + v)(v - \hat{v})}\right\}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation} Case 2. If
$\beta_1^{1+v} \lt \beta_2$, this situation is denoted as Case 2 for the upper bound. Taking into account the construction methods of the Cantor subset and the sequences
$\left\{h_k\right\}$ and
$\left\{l_k\right\}$, it follows that
$\beta_1^{-h_k} \gt \beta_2^{-l_k}$. In this case, we have
\begin{equation*}
\beta_2^{-h_{k-1}} \geq \beta_1^{-l_k} \geq \beta_1^{-h_k} \gt \beta_2^{-l_k} \geq \beta_2^{-h_k}.
\end{equation*}There are four subcases, which are listed as follows.
Case 2.1.
$\beta_2^{-h_{k-1}} \geq r \geq \beta_1^{-l_k} $.
Similarly to Case 1.1, we also have
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) & \leq T \cdot \mu\left(Q_k\right) \\
& \ll r^2\cdot \beta_1^{l_k}\cdot\beta_2^{l_k}\cdot \beta_1^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(\tilde{t}_i+\bar{t}_i+2)(2 N+1)]} \\
&\times \beta_2^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(t_i+1)(2 N+1)]},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}and thus, for any sufficiently small
$r$, we obtain
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r))\ll r^t$ for every
$t\leq t_1$.
Case 2.2.
$ \beta_1^{-l_k} \gt r \geq \beta_1^{-h_k} $.
Now, we can obtain
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r))
&\ll r \cdot\beta_2^{l_k} \cdot\beta_1^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(\tilde{t}_i+\bar{t}_i+2)(2 N+1)]} \\
&\times \beta_2^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(t_i+1)(2 N+1)]} .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} Combining (18), if
$t$ satisfies
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
t &\leq \min \left\{\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-l_k \log \beta_1}\right],\right. \\
&\left.\quad \liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[ 1 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-h_k \log \beta_1}\right]\right\} \\
&=:t_5,
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}then for any sufficiently small
$r$, we get
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) \ll r^t$ for every
$t \leq t_5$. Observe that, by (22) and (25),
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-l_k \log \beta_1}\right]\\
=&1-\log _{\beta_1}{\beta_2} + (1+\log _{\beta_1}{\beta_2}) \frac{v- \hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}}
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[ 1 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-h_k \log \beta_1}\right]\\
=&1 - \frac{1}{(1 + v)} \log _{\beta_1} \beta_2 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right) \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})} .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}Thus, we conclude that
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
t\leq& \min \left\{1-\log _{\beta_1}{\beta_2} +(1+\log _{\beta_1}{\beta_2}) \frac{v- \hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}},\right. \\
&\left.1 - \frac{1}{(1 + v)} \log _{\beta_1} \beta_2 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right) \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}\right\},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}and then (30) holds.
Case 2.3.
$ \beta_1^{-h_k} \gt r \gt \beta_2^{-l_k} $.
In this situation, we first estimate
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) &\ll r^2\beta_2^{l_k} \cdot \beta_1^{h_k} \cdot \beta_1^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(\tilde{t}_i+\bar{t}_i+2)(2 N+1)]} \\
&\times \beta_2^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(t_i+1)(2 N+1)]} .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} Combining (18), if
$t$ satisfies
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
t &\leq\min \left\{\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[2 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2) + h_k \log \beta_1}{-h_k \log \beta_1}\right],\right. \\
&\left.\quad \liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[2 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2) + h_k \log \beta_1}{-l_k \log \beta_2}\right]\right\} \\
&=:t_6,
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}and consequently, for any sufficiently small
$r$, it can be shown that
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) \ll r^t$ holds for every
$t\leq t_6$. From (22) and (25),
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[2 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2) + h_k \log \beta_1}{-h_k \log \beta_1}\right]\\
=&1 - \frac{1}{(1 + v)} \log _{\beta_1} \beta_2 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right) \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[2 + \frac{l_k \log \beta_2 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2) + h_k \log \beta_1}{-l_k \log \beta_2}\right]\\
=&1 - (1 + v) \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right) \frac{v- \hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}That is,
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
t &\leq\min \left\{1 - \frac{1}{(1 + v)} \log _{\beta_1} \beta_2 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right) \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})},\right. \\
&\left.\quad 1 - (1 + v) \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right) \frac{v- \hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}}\right\},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}in this case, (31) holds.
Case 2.4.
$ \beta_2^{-l_k} \geq r \geq \beta_2^{-h_k} $.
In this situation, we first calculate
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r))
&\leq T \cdot \mu(Q_k)\\
&\leq \frac{r}{\beta_2^{-h_k}} \cdot\mu(R_k) \cdot \frac{\beta_2^{-h_k}}{\beta_1^{-h_k}}\\
&=r\cdot\beta_1^{h_k} \cdot \beta_1^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(\tilde{t}_i+\bar{t}_i+2)(2 N+1)]} \\
&\times \beta_2^{-[l_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(h_i - l_i)-2N-1-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(t_i+1)(2 N+1)]} .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} Combining (18), if
$t$ satisfies
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
t &\leq \min \left\{\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{h_k \log \beta_1 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-l_k \log \beta_2}\right],\right. \\
&\left.\quad \liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{h_k \log \beta_1 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-h_k \log \beta_2}\right]\right\} \\
&=:t_7,
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}then, for any sufficiently small
$r$, we obtain
$\mu(B(\mathbf{z}, r)) \leq r^t$ for every
$t\leq t_7$. By (22) and (25),
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{h_k \log \beta_1 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-l_k \log \beta_2}\right]\\
=&1 - (1 + v) \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right) \frac{v - \hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}}
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\liminf _{k \rightarrow \infty} \left[1 + \frac{h_k \log \beta_1 - [n_k - \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}(m_i - n_i)](\log \beta_1 + \log \beta_2)}{-h_k \log \beta_2}\right]\\
=&1 - \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)\cdot \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v) (v - \hat{v})} .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}So we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
t &\leq\min \left\{1 - (1 + v) \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right) \left(1 - \frac{v \hat{v}}{v - \hat{v}}\right),\right. \\
&\left.\quad 1 - \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1 + \left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)\cdot \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v) (v - \hat{v})}\right\}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}Therefore, (32) holds.
From the four cases above, we conclude that
Therefore, by Lemma 3.4, we get
Then, by the arbitrariness of
$t$, we have
By
$\hat{v} \leq \frac{v}{1+v}$, we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\min\{t_1,t_{5},t_6,t_{7}\}\\
= &\min \left\{1-\frac{1}{(1+v)}\log _{\beta_1} {\beta_2}+\left(1+\log _{\beta_1} {\beta_2}\right)\cdot \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})},\right. \\
&\left. 1 - \log _{\beta_2} {\beta_1} + \left(1+\log _{\beta_2} {\beta_1}\right)\cdot\frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1 + v)(v - \hat{v})}\right\}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} Hence, when
$ \beta_1^{-h_k} \gt \beta_2^{-l_k}$, we conclude that
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
&\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v) \\
\geq& \min \left\{1-\frac{1}{(1+v)}\log _{\beta_1} {\beta_2}+ \frac{(1+\log _{\beta_1} {\beta_2})(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})},\right. \\
&\left. 1 - \log _{\beta_2} {\beta_1} + \frac{(1+\log _{\beta_2} {\beta_1})(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1 + v)(v - \hat{v})}\right\}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation} Case 3. Let
$\varepsilon \gt 0$. When
$\beta_1^{1+v}=\beta_2$, we consider two cases:
$\beta_1^{-h_k} \leq \beta_2^{-l_k(1-\varepsilon)}$ and
$\beta_1^{-h_k} \geq \beta_2^{-l_k(1+\varepsilon)}$.
Case 3.1.
$\beta_1^{-h_k} \leq \beta_2^{-l_k(1-\varepsilon)}$. This condition is similar to that in Case 1, and we only need to change
$\beta_2^{-l_k}$ to
$\beta_2^{-l_k(1-\varepsilon)}$ in the arguments for Case 1. By the same reasoning, we have
where
$t_1$ and
$t_4$ are the same as in Case 1,
\begin{equation*}
t_2^{\prime} := \min \left\{1-(1-\varepsilon)\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2+\left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right) \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{v-\hat{v}},\frac{(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1)(v-\hat{v}-v\hat{v})}{(1-\varepsilon)(v-\hat{v})}\right\},
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
t_3^{\prime} := \min \left\{\left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right)\frac{v-\hat{v}-v\hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})},\frac{(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1)(v-\hat{v}-v\hat{v})}{(1-\varepsilon)(v-\hat{v})}\right\}.
\end{equation*}Hence, by Lemma 3.4, it follows that
By the arbitrariness of
$t$, we have
Note that
$\hat{v} \leq \frac{v}{1+v}$ under the condition
$\beta_1^{-h_k} \leq \beta_2^{-l_k(1-\varepsilon)}$. Letting
$\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$, we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
& \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v) \\
\geq & \min \left\{\frac{\left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right)(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}, 1-\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1+\frac{\left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}\right\}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}This is equivalent to the result of (29).
Case 3.2.
$\beta_1^{-h_k} \geq \beta_2^{-l_k(1+\varepsilon)}$. This situation is comparable to that in Case 2. We simply replace
$\beta_2^{-l_k}$ with
$\beta_2^{-l_k(1+\varepsilon)}$ in the arguments for Case 2 and thus obtain
where
$t_1$ and
$t_5$ take the same values as in Case 2,
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
t_6^{\prime} := & \min \left\{1-\frac{1+\varepsilon}{(1+v)} \log _{\beta_1} \beta_2+\left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right) \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})},\right. \\
& \left.1-\frac{1+v}{1+\varepsilon}\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1+ \frac{(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1)(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1+\varepsilon)(v-\hat{v})}\right\},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
t_7^{\prime} := & \min \left\{1-\frac{1+v}{1+\varepsilon} \log _{\beta_2} \beta_1+\frac{(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1)(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1+\varepsilon)(v-\hat{v})}, \right. \\
& \left.1-\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1+\left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right) \frac{v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v}}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}\right\}.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}Thus, from Lemma 3.4, we obtain
By the arbitrariness of
$t$, it follows that
Applying the inequality
$\hat{v} \leq \frac{v}{1+v}$ under
$\beta_1^{-h_k} \geq \beta_2^{-l_k(1-\varepsilon)}$ and taking the limit as
$\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$, we conclude that
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
& \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v) \\
\geq & \min \left\{1-\frac{1}{(1+v)} \log _{\beta_1} \beta_2+\frac{\left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right)(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})},\right. \\
& \left.1-\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1+\frac{\left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)(v-\hat{v}-v \hat{v})}{(1+v)(v-\hat{v})}\right\} .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}This is the same as the result of (33).
According to (29) and (33), we have thus established the lower bound of the Hausdorff dimension of
$E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v)$.
4. Proof of Theorem 1.8
In this section, we provide the proof of Theorem 1.8, which is a corollary of Theorem 1.5.
Firstly, when
$\hat{v}=v=0$, we have
\begin{equation*}
\mathcal{L}^2\left(E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}\left(0, 0\right)\right)=1.
\end{equation*}Moreover, since
\begin{equation*}
E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}\left(0, 0\right) \subset \left\{(x, y) \in [0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(x, y)=0\right\},
\end{equation*}we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} \left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(x, y)=0\right\}=2.
\end{equation*} Next, when
$\hat{v} \gt 1$, it follows from (7) that
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} \left\{(x, y) \in [0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(x, y) \geq \hat{v}\right\}=0.
\end{equation*} It remains to consider the case when
$0 \lt \hat{v}\leq1$. Observe that the inclusion
$ E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v) \subset U_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}) $ holds for any
$ 0 \le v \le \infty $. Consequently,
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} U_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v}) \ge \sup\limits_{0\le v \le \infty} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v).
\end{equation*}Thus, we only need to study the upper bound of the Hausdorff dimension of the set
\begin{equation*}
\left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(x, y) \geq \hat{v}\right\}
\end{equation*}when
$0 \lt \hat{v} \leq 1$.
Write
$v_0:=\frac{\hat{v}}{1-\hat{v}}$. For any sufficiently small
$\delta \gt 0$ and integer
$l \geq 1$, we define
\begin{equation*}
F_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},l, \delta)=\left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y) \geq \hat{v}, v_0+(l-1)\delta \leq v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y) \leq v_0+l\delta\right\}
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
F_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},\infty)=\left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y) \geq \hat{v}, v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y)=\infty \right\} .
\end{equation*} Fix
$\delta \gt 0$. It follows from (7) that
\begin{equation*}
\left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y)\geq\hat{v}\right\}
=\left( \bigcup_{l=1}^{+\infty} F_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v}, l, \delta)\right)\bigcup F_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},\infty).
\end{equation*}Hence,
\begin{align*}
&\dim_{\mathrm H} \left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y) \geq \hat{v}\right\} =\nonumber\\
&\qquad\max\{\sup _{l\geq 1} \dim_{\mathrm H} F_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v}, l, \delta),~ \dim_{\mathrm H} F_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},\infty)\}.
\end{align*} When
$v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y)=\infty$, notice that
\begin{equation*}
\left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y) \geq \hat{v}, v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y)=\infty \right\} \subset \left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y)=\infty \right\}.
\end{equation*} By Theorem 1.7, we know that
$\dim_{\mathrm H} \left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y)=\infty \right\}=0$. It follows that
Therefore, for any
$\delta \gt 0$,
\begin{equation}
\dim_{\mathrm H} \left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y) \geq \hat{v}\right\} =\sup _{l\geq 1} \dim_{\mathrm H} F_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v}, l, \delta).
\end{equation}Next, we show that
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} \left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y)\geq \hat{v}\right\} \le \sup\limits_{0\le v \le \infty} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v},v).
\end{equation*}We divide the proof into a sequence of claims.
Claim 1. For any
$ 0 \lt \hat{v}\le 1,$
$l \gt 1$ and
$\delta \gt 0,$ we have
\begin{align}
\dim_{\mathrm H} F_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v}, l,\delta)\le&
\min\{\tilde{A}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta),~\tilde{B}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)\} \cdot 1_{\beta_1^{1+v_0+l\delta} \gt \beta_2}\\
&+\min \{\tilde{A}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta), \tilde{C}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)\} \cdot 1_{\beta_1^{1+v_0+l\delta} \leq \beta_2}, \nonumber\end{align}where
\begin{align*}
\tilde{A}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)=&\left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)\frac{v_0+(l+2)\delta-\hat{v}[1+v_0+(l+1)\delta]}{(1+v_0+l\delta)(v_0+l\delta-\hat{v})}+1-\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1,\\
\tilde{B}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)=&\left(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2\right)\frac{v_0+(l+2)\delta-\hat{v}[1+v_0+(l+1)\delta]}{(1+v_0+l\delta)(v_0+l\delta-\hat{v})},
\\
\tilde{C}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)=&\frac{v_0+(l+2)\delta-\hat{v}-\hat{v}[v_0+(l+1)\delta](1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2)}{(1+v_0+l\delta)(v_0+l\delta-\hat{v})}+1.
\end{align*}Equation (35) can be proved by employing a method analogous to that in § 3.1; here we only outline the differences.
• For any
$\varepsilon \gt 0$, we have
\begin{equation*}
\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}\left(m_i-n_i\right) \geq\left[\frac{(v_0+(l+1)\delta) \hat{v}}{v_0+(l+2)\delta-\hat{v}}-\varepsilon\right] n_k
\end{equation*}for sufficiently large
$k$. We also have
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
D_{n_1, m_1 ; \cdots ; n_{k-1}, m_{k-1}}\!=\!\left\{\!(\omega, \nu) \in \Sigma_{\beta_1}^{n_k} \times \Sigma_{\beta_2}^{n_k}: \omega_{n_i+1}\right. & =\cdots=\omega_{m_i}=0, \text {and } \\
\!\!\nu_{n_i+1} & \left.=\cdots=\nu_{m_i}\!=0, \text {for all } 1 \leq i \leq k-1\!\right\}\!.
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*} • Replace
$\Omega$ by
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\Omega=\left\{(\{n_k\},\{m_k\}):\right. & (9)~\text{holds}, ~\liminf_{k\rightarrow\infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_{k+1}}\geq \hat{v}
\\ & \left. \text{~and}~v_0+(l-1)\delta\leq \limsup_{k\rightarrow\infty} \frac{m_k-n_k}{n_k}\leq v_0+l\delta \right\} .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}• The estimate
\begin{equation*}
\sharp D_{n_1, m_1 ; \cdots ; n_{k-1}, m_{k-1}} \leq\left(\beta_1-1\right)^{-2 k} \beta_2^{k\left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)} \beta_2^{n_k\left(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1\right)\left[\frac{v_0+(l+2)\delta-\hat{v}(1+v_0+(l+1)\delta)}{v_0+l\delta-\hat{v}}+\varepsilon\right]}
\end{equation*}holds.
Claim 2. When
$0\leq v_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y) \lt \infty$, we aim to prove that
\begin{equation}
\sup _{l\geq1} \dim_{\mathrm H} F_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(\hat{v}, l,\delta)
\leq \sup _{l\geq1} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}\left(\hat{v}, v_0+l \delta\right)+2(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2)\delta.
\end{equation}To this end, we note the following inequalities
\begin{equation*}
\tilde{A}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)-A(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)=\frac{(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1)\delta}{(1+v_0+l\delta)(v_0+l\delta-\hat{v})}\leq 2(1+\log _{\beta_2} \beta_1)\delta,
\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}
\tilde{B}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)-B(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)=\frac{(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2)\delta}{(1+v_0+l\delta)(v_0+l\delta-\hat{v})}\leq 2(1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2)\delta,
\end{equation*}and
\begin{equation*}
\tilde{C}(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)-C(\hat{v},v_0+l\delta)=\frac{\delta}{(1+v_0+l\delta)(v_0+l\delta-\hat{v})}
\leq 2\delta.
\end{equation*}Claim 3.
\begin{equation}
\lim _{\delta \rightarrow 0} \sup _{l \geq 1} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v_0+l\delta)=\sup _{0 \le v \le \infty} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v).
\end{equation} By the definition of the supremum, for any
$\eta \gt 0$, there exists
$v^* \geq v_0$ such that
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v^*) \gt \sup _{v \geq v_0} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v)-\eta.
\end{equation*} Choose a sufficiently small
$\delta$ satisfying
$\delta \lt \eta$ and let
$l=\lfloor \frac{v^*-v_0}{\delta} \rfloor$. Then
$v_0+l\delta\in[v^*-\delta,v^*]$. Since
$\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v^*)$ is continuous with respect to
$v$, we obtain
\begin{equation*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v_0+l\delta)\geq \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v^*)-\eta \gt \sup _{v \geq v_0} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v)-2\eta.
\end{equation*}Hence,
\begin{equation*}
\sup _{l\geq1} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v_0+l\delta) \gt \sup _{v \geq v_0} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v)-2\eta.
\end{equation*} By Theorem 1.5,
$\dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v)=0$ for all
$0\leq v \lt v_0$, so
\begin{equation*}
\sup _{0 \leq v \leq \infty} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v)=\sup _{v \geq v_0} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v).
\end{equation*} Letting
$\delta \rightarrow 0$ (and correspondingly,
$\eta\rightarrow 0$), we combine the above result with the trivial bound
$\sup _{l\geq1} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v_0+l\delta)\leq \sup _{0 \leq v \leq \infty} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v)$ to get (37).
Finally, combining (34), (36) and (37), and letting
$\delta \rightarrow 0$, we conclude that
\begin{align*}
\dim_{\mathrm H} \left\{(x, y) \in[0,1]^2: \hat{v}_{\beta_1,\beta_2}(x, y)\ge\hat{v}\right\}
&\le \lim_{\delta \to 0}\sup _{l \geq 1} \dim_{\mathrm H} F_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, l, \delta) \\
&\leq \lim_{\delta \to 0} \bigg(\sup _{l \geq 1} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v_0+l\delta)+\nonumber\\
&\qquad (1+\log _{\beta_1} \beta_2)\delta\bigg)\\
& = \sup _{0 \leq v \leq \infty} \dim_{\mathrm H} E_{\beta_1, \beta_2}(\hat{v}, v).
\end{align*}This completes the proof.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to Professor Baowei Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) for his helpful suggestions and to Professor Jian Xu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) for his valuable guidance and insightful comments. They also wish to thank Dr. Jing Feng (Wuhan University of Science and Technology) for her continuous support and helpful feedback. This work is supported by National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2024YFA1013700) and Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12331005).










