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Positive Measure and Renormalization for a Disturbed Binary Achievement Set

Positive measure, infinite gaps, and exact scale recursion

Method & partial progressMF-PRISM-MATH-2026-13 / v1.1

Establishes positive measure and quantitative bounds for a disturbed binary achievement set, together with an exact renormalization identity. It isolates the remaining interior question rather than settling the complete topological classification.

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Current public editionv1.1 · 2026-09-12
Identifier
MF-PRISM-MATH-2026-13
Series
Mathematics
Edition
Version 1.1
Length
11 pages
Reserved DOI
10.5281/zenodo.22728336 (record reserved)
01

What is this paper trying to establish?

What can be proved about the measure and self-similarity of the disturbed binary achievement set before its interior is classified?

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The central idea.

Establishes positive measure and quantitative bounds for a disturbed binary achievement set, together with an exact renormalization identity. It isolates the remaining interior question rather than settling the complete topological classification.

Current status

Partial progress: positive measure and renormalization do not settle the remaining Cantor-set-versus-Cantorval classification.

This manuscript develops a method and finite evidence, but it does not resolve the full open problem. The unresolved boundary is part of the published result.

03

What changes if the method holds?

The results narrow the remaining classification problem and supply exact structure that future work can use without pretending the Cantor-set-versus-Cantorval question is finished.

04

Where scrutiny should concentrate.

The paper identifies the following points as the highest-value targets for independent review.

  1. 01
    Measure bounds for nested outer approximations and possible overlap overcounting.
  2. 02
    Exact pair tails, gaps, and the renormalization family.
  3. 03
    The unresolved interior question and the boundary between a positive-measure Cantor set and a Cantorval.
Publication record

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Document
Preprint
Review status
Open for independent review
Published
2026-09-12
DOI status
Reserved · 10.5281/zenodo.22728336
Canonical record
MF-PRISM-MATH-2026-13
Metriq PRISM Laboratory, Positive Measure and Renormalization for a Disturbed Binary Achievement Set, Metriq PRISM Laboratory Mathematics Research Paper MF-PRISM-MATH-2026-13, Version 1.1, 2026. Corresponding contributor: Daniel H. Jeffery, ORCID 0009-0001-1200-6042. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22728336.