Dirichlet Forms on Laakso and Barlow-Evans Fractals of Arbitrary Dimension

Abstract

In this paper we explore two constructions of the same family of metric measure spaces. The first construction was introduced by Laakso in 2000 where he used it as an example that Poincar\'e inequalities can hold on spaces of arbitrary Hausdorff dimension. This was proved using minimal generalized upper gradients. Following Cheeger's work these upper gradients can be used to define a Sobolev space. We show that this leads to a Dirichlet form. The second construction was introduced by Barlow and Evans in 2004 as a way of producing exotic spaces along with Markov processes from simpler spaces and processes. We show that for the correct base process in the Barlow Evans construction that this Markov process corresponds to the Dirichlet form derived from the minimal generalized upper gradients.