{"title":"An overview of complex fractal dimensions:\u0000 from fractal strings to fractal drums, and\u0000 back","authors":"M. Lapidus","doi":"10.1090/conm/731/14677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/731/14677","url":null,"abstract":"Our main goal in this long survey article is to provide an overview of the theory of complex fractal dimensions and of the associated geometric or fractal zeta functions, first in the case of fractal strings (one-dimensional drums with fractal boundary), in Sref{Sec:2}, and then in the higher-dimensional case of relative fractal drums and, in particular, of arbitrary bounded subsets of Euclidean space of $mathbb{R}^N$, for any integer $N geq 1$, in Sref{Sec:3}. \u0000Special attention is paid to discussing a variety of examples illustrating the general theory rather than to providing complete statements of the results and their proofs, for which we refer to the books cite{Lap-vF4} (2013, joint with M. van Frankenhuijsen) when $N=1$, and cite{LapRaZu1} (2017, joint with G. Radunovi' c and D. v{Z}ubrini'c) when $N geq 1$ is arbitrary. \u0000Finally, in an epilogue (Sref{Sec:4}), entitled \"From quantized number theory to fractal cohomology\", we briefly survey aspects of related work (motivated in part by the theory of complex fractal dimensions) of the author with H. Herichi (in the real case) cite{HerLap1}, along with cite{Lap8}, and with T. Cobler (in the complex case) cite{CobLap1}, respectively, as well as in the latter part of a book in preparation by the author, cite{Lap10}.","PeriodicalId":431279,"journal":{"name":"Horizons of Fractal Geometry and Complex\n Dimensions","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133716509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}