Quasiconformal distortion of the Assouad spectrum and classification of polynomial spirals

Abstract: We investigate the distortion of Assouad dimension and the Assouad spectrum under Euclidean quasiconformal maps. Our results complement existing conclusions for Hausdorff and box-counting dimension due to Gehring--V\"ais\"al\"a and others. As an application, we classify polynomial spirals $S_a:={x^{-a}e^{\mathbf{i} x}:x>0}$ up to quasiconformal equivalence, up to the level of the dilatation. Specifically, for $a>b>0$ we show that there exists a quasiconformal map $f$ of $\mathbb{C}$ with dilatation $K_f$ and $f(S_a)=S_b$ if and only if $K_f \ge \tfrac{a}{b}$.