Dynamical multifractal zeta-functions and fine multifractal spectra of graph-directed self-conformal constructions (Q2827503)

The paper is about the fine multifractal spectrum of a Borel measure \(\mu\) on \(\mathbb R^n\), that is, the Hausdorff dimension of level sets of points with equal local dimension values, NEWLINE\[NEWLINEf_\mu(\alpha)=\dim_{\text{H}}\Big\{x: \lim_{r\searrow0}\frac{\log\mu(B(x,r))}{\log r}=\alpha\Big\}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE which is one of the main ingredients in multifractal analysis. The description of such spectra is usually based on the thermodynamic formalism that involves concepts such as pressure and the dynamical zeta-function. Both concepts are intimately related (see, for example, [\textit{W. Parry} and \textit{M. Pollicott}, Zeta functions and the periodic orbit structure of hyperbolic dynamics. Paris: Société Mathématique de France (1990; Zbl 0726.58003)]) and provide very useful and versatile tools to study fractal dimensions and multifractal structures.NEWLINENEWLINEMotivated by techniques which make use of the Artin-Mazur zeta functions in number theory and of the Ruelle zeta-functions in dynamical systems, \textit{M. L. Lapidus} and \textit{M. van Frankenhuysen} [Fractal geometry and number theory. Complex dimensions of fractal strings and zeros of zeta functions. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser (2000; Zbl 0981.28005)] also started using modified zeta-functions in fractal geometry. These are designed to provide information about the multifractal spectrum of self-similar measures. Here the key idea is that, in the definition of pressures and zeta-functions, instead of ``summing over all data'', these quantifiers are defined ``summing only over data that are multifractally relevant''. These new concepts turn out to provide a substantially more flexible and useful framework to study graph-directed self-conformal constructions. In the present paper, the authors introduce multifractal pressures and correspondingly dynamical multifractal zeta-functions. They apply their theory to multifractal spectra of graph-directed self-conformal measures and multifractal spectra of Birkhoff averages of continuous functions.