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Transience and multifractal analysis

Dynamical Systems 2018-09-18 v2

Abstract

We study dimension theory for dissipative dynamical systems, proving a conditional variational principle for the quotients of Birkhoff averages restricted to the recurrent part of the system. On the other hand, we show that when the whole system is considered (and not just its recurrent part) the conditional variational principle does not necessarily hold. Moreover, we exhibit the first example of a topologically transitive map having discontinuous Lyapunov spectrum. The mechanism producing all these pathological features on the multifractal spectra is transience, that is, the non-recurrent part of the dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1309.0720,
  title  = {Transience and multifractal analysis},
  author = {Godofredo Iommi and Thomas Jordan and Mike Todd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0720},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Some updates following referee suggestions

R2 v1 2026-06-22T01:19:49.765Z