A tree-like fractal Dirichlet space lying between strong and weak elliptic Harnack inequalities

Abstract

In this paper we construct a self-similar fractal configured as an infinitely branched tree and equip it with a regular self-similar Dirichlet form. We show anomalous behaviour of the mean exit time with respect to typical metric balls. Under properly selected self-similar measure, we further show the weak elliptic Harnack inequality holds but the strong analogue fails.