Wavelets techniques for pointwise anti-Hölderian irregularity (Q623358)

The authors study lower and upper Hölder exponents of a function \(f\) defined by \(\underline h_f(x_0) = \sup\{\alpha:\) there exists \(C\), \(R>0\) and a polynomial of degree less than \(\alpha\) so that \(\|f-P\|_{L^\infty(B(x_0,r))}\leq Cr^\alpha\), \(r\leq R\}\) and \(\overline h_f(x_0) = \inf\{\alpha:\) there exists \(C\), \(R>0\) so that \(\sup_{|h|\leq r}\|\Delta_h^{\lfloor \alpha\rfloor+1} f\|_{L^\infty(B(x_0,r))}\geq Cr^\alpha\), \(r\leq R\}\). First, the authors review and extend characterizations of the local upper and lower Hölder exponents in terms of the coefficients of a wavelet expansion of the function where the wavelets have compact support. Next, they show for nowhere differentiable functions on \([0,1]\) that \(\underline h_f\) and \(\overline h_f\) are limits of continuous functions and also construct a functions \(f\) with given \(\underline h_f\) and \(\overline h_f\). Finally, they consider a multifractal formalism to study the values taken by the Hölder exponents and thus in particular the Hausdorff dimension of the set where the Hölder exponents takes a certain value.