Lower Assouad type dimensions of uniformly perfect sets in doubling metric spaces

Abstract: In this paper, we are concerned with the relationship among the lower Assouad type dimensions. For uniformly perfect sets in doubling metric spaces, we obtain a variational result between two different but closely related lower Assouad spectra. As an application, we show that the limit of the lower Assouad spectrum as $\theta$ tends to 1 equals to the quasi-lower Assouad dimension, which provides an equivalent definition to the latter. On the other hand, although the limit of the lower Assouad spectrum as $\theta$ tends to 0 exists, there exist uniformly perfect sets such that this limit is not equal to the lower box-counting dimension. Moreover, by the example of Cantor cut-out sets, we show that the new definition of quasi lower Assouad dimension is more accessible, and indicate that the lower Assouad dimension could be strictly smaller than the lower spectra and the quasi lower Assouad dimension.