Genericity of dimension drop on self-affine sets
  We prove that generically, for a self-affine set in $\mathbb{R}^d$, removing one of the affine maps which defines the set results in a strict reduction of the Hausdorff dimension. This gives a partial positive answer to a folklore open question. 
Antti K\"aenm\"aki and Bing Li
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