Multifractal spectra and multifractal zeta-functions (Q509614)

There are two main ingredients in multifractal analysis: the multifractal spectrum and the Renyi dimensions, and the main goals is to understand these two ingredients and their relationship with each other. The multifractal spectrum and the Renyi dimensions of a measure encode important information about the measure, and it is therefore of considerable importance to find explicit formulas for these quantities. Such explicit formulas are known for the Renyi dimensions of a self-similar measure. However, analysing the multifractal spectrum of a measure is considerably more difficult and challenging than analyzing its Renyi dimensions, and the main purpose of this paper is to address the substantially more difficult problem of finding explicit formulas for the multifractal spectrum of a selfsimilar measure. In particular, and as a first step in this direction, the authors introduce multifractal zeta-functions providing precise information of very general classes of multifractal spectra including, for example, the multifractal spectra of selfconformal measures and the multifractal spectra of ergodic Birkhoff averages of continuous functions. More precisely, they prove that these, and more general multifractal spectra, equal the abscissae of convergence of the associated zeta-functions.