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Some geometric properties of Riemann's non-differentiable function

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-12-06 v2

Abstract

Riemann's non-differentiable function is a celebrated example of a continuous but almost nowhere differentiable function. There is strong numeric evidence that one of its complex versions represents a geometric trajectory in experiments related to the binormal flow or the vortex filament equation. In this setting, we analyse certain geometric properties of its image in C\mathbb{C}. The objective of this note is to assert that the Hausdorff dimension of its image is no larger than 4/3 and that it has nowhere a tangent.

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@article{arxiv.1907.05723,
  title  = {Some geometric properties of Riemann's non-differentiable function},
  author = {Daniel Eceizabarrena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05723},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures. v2: References updated and corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-23T10:19:33.806Z