English

Level sets of prevalent Weierstrass functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-11-06 v2

Abstract

The α\alpha-Weierstrass function is defined as Wgα,b(x)=k=0bαkg(bkx)W_g^{\alpha,b}(x) = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} b^{-\alpha k} g(b^k x), where gg is a Lipschitz function on the unit circle. For a prevalent α\alpha-Weierstrass function, we prove that the upper Minkowski dimension of every level set is at most 1α1-\alpha, and the Hausdorff dimension of almost every level set equals 1α1-\alpha with respect to its occupation measure. We further demonstrate that the occupation measure of a prevalent α\alpha-Weierstrass function is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. Consequently, the result on the Hausdorff dimension of level sets applies to a set of level sets with positive Lebesgue measure. A central tool in our analysis is the Weierstrass embedding. For a sufficiently large dimension dd, we construct Lipschitz functions g0,g1,,gd1g_0, g_1, \ldots, g_{d-1} such that the mapping x(Wg0α,b(x),Wg1α,b(x),,Wgd1α,b(x))x \mapsto \big(W_{g_0}^{\alpha,b}(x), W_{g_1}^{\alpha,b}(x), \ldots, W_{g_{d-1}}^{\alpha,b}(x)\big) is α\alpha-bi-H\"older. We also prove that such an embedding requires at least 1/α1/\alpha coordinate functions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2507.15591,
  title  = {Level sets of prevalent Weierstrass functions},
  author = {Zoltán Buczolich and Antti Käenmäki and Balázs Maga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15591},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

17 pages, 2 figures; v2: added Lemma 2.1 to streamline the trivial case in the proof of Theorem 2.2

R2 v1 2026-07-01T04:11:17.442Z