On a class of self-similar sets which contain finitely many common points.

In this paper we consider a family of self-similar sets $\{K_\lambda: \lambda\in(0,1/2]\}$, where each $K_\lambda$ is generated by the iterated function system $\{ f_{\lambda,0}(x) = \lambda x,\; f_{\lambda,1}(x)=\lambda x + (1-\lambda) \}.$ For a given point $x\in[0,1]$ let $$ \Lambda(x):=\{\lambda\in(0,1/2]: x\in K_\lambda\}. $$ Then $x$ is a common point of $K_\lambda$ for all $\lambda\in\Lambda(x)$. Excluding the trivial cases with $x\in\{0,1/2,1\}$ we show that for any $x\in(0,1)\setminus\{1/2\}$ the set $\Lambda(x)$ is a topological Cantor set, and it has zero Lebesgue measure and full Hausdorff dimension. Furthermore, by using the thickness method introduced by Newhouse in 1970 we show that for any $x^1,\ldots, x^p\in(0,1)\setminus\{1/2\}$ the intersection $\bigcap_{i=1}^p\Lambda(x^i)$ also has full Hausdorff dimension.