HAUSDORFF DIMENSION OF CERTAIN RANDOM SELF-AFFINE FRACTALS

In this work we are interested in the self-affine fractals studied by Gatzouras and Lalley [5] and by the author [11] who generalize the famous general Sierpinski carpets studied by Bedford [1] and McMullen [13]. We give a formula for the Hausdorff dimension of sets which are randomly generated using a finite number of self-affine transformations each generating a fractal set as mentioned before. The choice of the transformation is random according to a Bernoulli measure. The formula is given in terms of the variational principle for the dimension.