On the dimension spectra of infinite conformal iterated function systems

Abstract

The dimension spectrum of a conformal iterated function system (CIFS) is the set of all Hausdorff dimensions of its various subsystem limit sets. This brief note provides two constructions -- (i) a compact perfect set that cannot be realized as the dimension spectrum of a CIFS; and (ii) a similarity IFS whose dimension spectrum has zero Hausdorff dimension, and thus is not uniformly perfect -- which resolve questions posed by Chousionis, Leykekhman, and Urba\'nski, and go on provoke fresh conjectures and questions regarding the topological and metric properties of IFS dimension spectra.