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A Dichotomy for the Weierstrass-type functions

Dynamical Systems 2021-07-26 v2

Abstract

For a real analytic periodic function ϕ:RR\phi:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}, an integer b2b\ge 2 and λ(1/b,1)\lambda\in (1/b,1), we prove the following dichotomy for the Weierstrass-type function W(x)=n0λnϕ(bnx)W(x)=\sum\limits_{n\ge 0}{{\lambda}^n\phi(b^nx)}: Either W(x)W(x) is real analytic, or the Hausdorff dimension of its graph is equal to 2+logbλ2+\log_b\lambda. Furthermore, given bb and ϕ\phi, the former alternative only happens for finitely many λ\lambda unless ϕ\phi is constant.

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@article{arxiv.2007.04312,
  title  = {A Dichotomy for the Weierstrass-type functions},
  author = {Haojie Ren and Weixiao Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04312},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

37 pages, typos correced and small improvements

R2 v1 2026-06-23T16:57:40.497Z