Topology automaton and Hölder equivalence of Barański carpets

Abstract: The study of Lipschitz equivalence of fractals is a very active topic in recent years. In 2023, Huang \emph{et al.} (\textit{Topology automaton of self-similar sets and its applications to metrical classifications}, Nonlinearity \textbf{36} (2023), 2541-2566.) studied the H\"older and Lipschitz equivalence of a class of p.c.f. self-similar sets which are not totally disconnected. The main tool they used is the so called topology automaton. In this paper, we define topology automaton for Bara\'nski carpets, and we show that the method used in Huang \emph{et al.} still works for the self-affine and non-p.c.f. settings. As an application, we obtain a very general sufficient condition for Bara\'nski carpets to be H\"older (or Lipschitz) equivalent.