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notable inductive proofs relating to fractals

what are notable/ prominent inductive proofs relating to fractals?

the motivation for this question is:

  • fractals are very difficult mathematical objects to work with, and many problems/questions about them lie at the boundary of decidable/undecidable (and many are undecidable).
  • so it would be useful to study proofs that somehow cleverly/ surprisingly/ successfully "tame" this complexity.
  • also, presumably number theory could play a role here, eg a number-theoretic property that has a proof and has also been considered by some to be "fractal" under misc interpretations.
  • many famous open problems eg in number theory seem to have a fractal nature and that possibly substantially accounts for their difficulty eg Collatz visualizations/ tiles & Collatz fractal
  • (am acknowledging beforehand there is not a strict/widely agreed definition of fractal.)

somewhat related to Excellent uses of induction and recursion

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