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Recent Progress on Dimensions of Projections

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Geometry and Analysis of Fractals

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This is a survey on recent progress on the question: how do projections effect dimensions generically? I shall also discuss briefly dimensions of plane sections.

The author was supported by the Academy of Finland.

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Mattila, P. (2014). Recent Progress on Dimensions of Projections. In: Feng, DJ., Lau, KS. (eds) Geometry and Analysis of Fractals. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43920-3_10

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