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We study invariant measures for random countable (finite or infinite) conformal iterated function systems (IFS) with arbitrary overlaps. We do not assume any type of separation condition. We prove, under a mild assumption of finite entropy,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Eugen Mihailescu , Mariusz Urbanski

The term fractal refers to the fractional dimensions that have recursive nature and exhibit better array factor properties. In this article, we present a new class of sparse array where the recursive nature of a fractal can be used in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Kretika Goel , Monika Aggarwal , Subrat Kar

Many biological processes and objects can be described by fractals. The paper uses a new type of objects - blinking fractals - that are not covered by traditional theories considering dynamics of self-similarity processes. It is shown that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-15 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

By appropriate choices of elements in the underlying iterated function system, methodology of fractal interpolation entitles one to associate a family of continuous self-referential functions with a prescribed real-valued continuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-20 P. Viswanathan , M. A. Navascues

Fractal scaling--a power-law behavior of the number of boxes needed to tile a given network with respect to the lateral size of the box--is studied. We introduce a new box-covering algorithm that is a modified version of the original…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-29 J. S. Kim , K. -I. Goh , G. Salvi , E. Oh , B. Kahng , D. Kim

Using valuation rings and valued fields as examples, we discuss in which ways the notions of "topological IFS attractor" and "fractal space" can be generalized to cover more general settings.

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Jan Dobrowolski , Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann

The fractal or Hausdorff dimension is a measure of roughness (or smoothness) for time series and spatial data. The graph of a smooth, differentiable surface indexed in $\mathbb{R}^d$ has topological and fractal dimension $d$. If the surface…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-17 Tilmann Gneiting , Hana Ševčíková , Donald B. Percival

The Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT) has widespread applications in areas like signal analysis, Fourier optics, diffraction theory, etc. The Holomorphic Fractional Fourier Transform (HFrFT) proposed in the present paper may be used in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 William D. Kirwin , José Mourão , João P. Nunes , Thomas Thiemann

We have performed a detailed analysis of the fast multipole method (FMM) in the adaptive case, in which the depth of the FMM tree is non-uniform. Previous works in this area have focused mostly on special types of adaptive distributions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve

The science of fractography revolves around the correlation between topographic characteristics of the fracture surface and the mechanisms and external conditions leading to their creation. While being a topic of investigation for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Stylianos Tsopanidis , Raúl Herrero Moreno , Shmuel Osovski

While finite non-commutative operator systems lie at the foundation of quantum measurement, they are also tools for understanding geometric iterations as used in the theory of iterated function systems (IFSs) and in wavelet analysis. Key is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Palle E. T. Jorgensen

Iterated function systems (IFSs) and their attractors have been central to the theory of fractal geometry almost from its inception. And contractivity of the functions in the IFS has been central to the theory of iterated functions systems.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Krzysztof Leśniak , Nina Snigireva , Filip Strobin , Andrew Vince

In this work, we study the fractal and multifractal properties of a family of fractal networks introduced by Gallos {\it et al.} ({\it Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.}, 2007, {\bf 104}: 7746). In this fractal network model, there is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Bao-Gen Li , Zu-Guo Yu , Yu Zhou

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an efficient algorithm to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and its inverse. In this paper, we pay special attention to the description of complex-data FFT. We analyze two common descriptions of…

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In attempting to quantify statistically the density structure of the interstellar medium, astronomers have considered a variety of fractal models. Here we argue that, to properly characterise a fractal model, one needs to define precisely…

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Many modern unsupervised or semi-supervised machine learning algorithms rely on Bayesian probabilistic models. These models are usually intractable and thus require approximate inference. Variational inference (VI) lets us approximate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Cheng Zhang , Judith Butepage , Hedvig Kjellstrom , Stephan Mandt

A new calculus based on fractal subsets of the real line is formulated. In this calculus, an integral of order $\alpha, 0 < \alpha \leq 1$, called $F^\alpha$-integral, is defined, which is suitable to integrate functions with fractal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhay Parvate , A. D. Gangal

The fractal properties of models of randomly placed $n$-dimensional spheres ($n$=1,2,3) are studied using standard techniques for calculating fractal dimensions in empirical data (the box counting and Minkowski-sausage techniques). Using…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Daniel A. Hamburger , Ofer Biham , David Avnir

Superpixel segmentation has become an important research problem in image processing. In this paper, we propose an Iterative Spanning Forest (ISF) framework, based on sequences of Image Foresting Transforms, where one can choose i) a seed…

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One of the core problems of modern statistics is to approximate difficult-to-compute probability densities. This problem is especially important in Bayesian statistics, which frames all inference about unknown quantities as a calculation…

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