Bifractality of the devil's staircase appearing in the Burgers equation with Brownian initial velocity (Q1285066)

The authors consider the Burgers equation \(\partial_tv+v\partial_xv=\nu\partial^2_x\nu\) with a Brownian (or fractional Brownian) motion function (of the space coordinate \(x\)) and the initial velocity \(v_0(x)\). In the paper [\textit{Z.-S. She, E. Aurell}, and \textit{U. Frisch}, Commun. Math. Phys. 148, No. 3, 623-641 (1992; Zbl 0755.60104)], it was conjectured that, in the inviscid limit, the inverse Lagrangian map for the solution of this equation has a bifractality (phase transition) similar to that known for the standard devil's staircase associated to the triadic Cantor set. In this paper, the conjectured bifractality is demonstrated both heuristically and rigorously. Numerical simulations are presented. In particular, the authors explain why artifacts can easily hide the phenomenon and show how to overcome this.