Evaluating the exact infinitesimal values of area of Sierpinski’s carpet and volume of Menger’s sponge

Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2009, vol. 42, issue 5, 3042-3046

Abstract: Very often traditional approaches studying dynamics of self-similarity processes are not able to give their quantitative characteristics at infinity and, as a consequence, use limits to overcome this difficulty. For example, it is well known that the limit area of Sierpinski’s carpet and volume of Menger’s sponge are equal to zero. It is shown in this paper that recently introduced infinite and infinitesimal numbers allow us to use exact expressions instead of limits and to calculate exact infinitesimal values of areas and volumes at various points at infinity even if the chosen moment of the observation is infinitely faraway on the time axis from the starting point. It is interesting that traditional results that can be obtained without the usage of infinite and infinitesimal numbers can be produced just as finite approximations of the new ones. The importance of the possibility to have this kind of quantitative characteristics for E-Infinity theory is emphasized.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2009.04.013

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