Box dimension, oscillation and smoothness in function spaces (Q2574415)

Let \(\Gamma (f) = (x, f(x))\) be the graph in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) of a real continuous compactly supported function in \(\mathbb R^n\). In fractal geometry one studies the quality of \(\Gamma (f)\) in terms of several types of dimensions, among them the box dimension counting the number of cubes in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) of side-length \(2^{-\nu}\), \(\nu \in \mathbb N\), needed to cover \(\Gamma (f)\). From the analytic point of view one may ask to which oscillation spaces \(V^\alpha (\mathbb R^n)\) and Besov spaces \(B^s_{pq} (\mathbb R^n)\) the function \(f\) belongs. The paper studies in detail how these distinguished means to look at regularity and irregularity of \(f\) are interrelated.