Properties of quasi-Assouad dimension

Abstract

The connections between quasi-Assouad dimension and tangents are studied. We apply these results to the calculation of the quasi-Assouad dimension for a class of planar self-affine sets. We also show that sets with decreasing gaps have quasi-Assouad dimension 0 or 1 and exhibit an example of a set in the plane whose quasi-Assouad dimension is smaller than that of its projection onto the $x$-axis, showing that quasi-Assouad dimension may increase under Lipschitz mappings. Moreover, for closed sets, we show that the Hausdorff dimension is an upper bound for the quasi-lower Assouad dimension.