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41
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26137
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1837
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Kenneth Falconer is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science, with significant contributions in various subfields including Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics, such as:

  • Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
  • Advanced Topology and Set Theory
  • Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
  • Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
  • Digital Image Processing Techniques
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics

Kenneth Falconer has published in multiple research venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fractal Geometry Mathematics of Fractals and Related Topics
  • Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
  • Monatshefte für Mathematik
  • St Andrews Research Repository (St Andrews Research Repository)

Recent publications include:

  • "The fractal structure of elliptical polynomial spirals," 2022, Monatshefte für Mathematik
  • "Minkowski dimension for measures," 2022, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
  • "Intersections of thick compact sets in ℝd," 2022, St Andrews Research Repository (St Andrews Research Repository)
  • "Intermediate dimension of images of sequences under fractional Brownian motion," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "-spectra of measures on planar non-conformal attractors," 2020, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

Collaborations form an integral part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Jonathan M. Fraser
  • Alexia Yavicoli
  • Antti Käenmäki
  • Stuart A. Burrell
  • Lawrence D. Lee

Kenneth Falconer was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Foundations and Applications

    Kenneth J. Falconer

  • The geometry of fractal sets

    K. J. Falconer

  • Techniques in fractal geometry

    K. J. Falconer

  • Unsolved problems in geometry

    Hallard T. Croft;Kenneth J. Falconer;Richard K. Guy

  • The Hausdorff dimension of self-affine fractals

    K. J. Falconer

  • ANALYSIS ON FRACTALS (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics 143) By JUN KIGAMI: 226 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0-521-79321-1 (Cambridge University Press, 2001). LECTURES ON ANALYSIS ON METRIC SPACES (Universitext) By JUHA HEINONEN: 140 pp., £27.00, ISBN 0-387-95104-0 (Springer, New York, 2001).

    Kenneth J. Falconer

  • On the Hausdorff dimensions of distance sets

    K. J. Falconer

  • The multifractal spectrum of statistically self-similar measures

    K. J. Falconer;K. J. Falconer

  • Dimensions and measures of quasi self-similar sets

    K. J. Falconer

  • On the lipschitz equivalence of Cantor sets

    K. J. Falconer;D. T. Marsh

  • The dimension of self-affine fractals II

    K. J. Falconer

  • On the Minkowski measurability of fractals

    K. J. Falconer

  • The Local Structure of Random Processes

    Kenneth J. Falconer

  • Packing dimensions of projections and dimension profiles

    K. J. Falconer;J. D. Howroyd

  • A subadditive thermodynamic formalism for mixing repellers

    K J Falconer

  • Bounded distortion and dimension for non-conformal repellers

    K. J. Falconer

  • Tangent Fields and the Local Structure of Random Fields

    Kenneth J. Falconer

  • Fractals: A Very Short Introduction

    Kenneth Falconer

  • Sets with Large Intersection Properties

    K. J. Falconer

  • Hausdorff dimension and the exceptional set of projections

    K. J. Falconer

  • GEOMETRY OF SETS AND MEASURES IN EUCLIDEAN SPACES FRACTALS AND RECTIFIABILITY

    K. Falconer

Frequent Co-Authors

Pertti Mattila
Pertti Mattila University of Helsinki
Geoffrey Grimmett
Geoffrey Grimmett University of Cambridge
Yimin Xiao
Yimin Xiao Michigan State University

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