Parabolic carpets

Abstract

We introduce and study a family of non-conformal and non-uniformly contracting iterated function systems. We refer to the attractors of such systems as parabolic carpets. Roughly speaking they may be thought of as nonlinear analogues of self-affine carpets which are allowed to have parabolic fixed points. We compute the $L^q$-spectrum of a class of weak Gibbs measures supported on parabolic carpets as well as the box dimensions of the carpet itself.