Multifractal analysis and localized asymptotic behavior for almost additive potentials

Publication date 15 February 2010

Fractals (28A80) Thermodynamic formalism, variational principles, equilibrium states for dynamical systems (37D35)

Abstract: We conduct the multifractal analysis of the level sets of the asymptotic behavior of almost-additive continuous potentials

(p h i_{n})_{n = 1}^{i} n f t y

on a topologically mixing subshift of finite type

X

endowed itself with a metric associated with such a potential. We work without bounded distorsion property assumption. We express the whole Hausdorff spectrum in terms of a conditional variational principle, as well as a new large deviations principle. Our approach provides a new description of the structure of the spectrum in terms of {it weak} concavity. Another new point is that we consider sets of points at which the asymptotic behavior of

p h i_{n} (x)

is localized, i.e. depends on the point

x

rather than being equal to a constant. Specifically, we compute the Hausdorff dimension of sets of the form

x i n X : l i m_{n o i n f t y} p h i_{n} (x) / n = x i (x)

, where

x i

is a given continuous function. This is naturally related to Birkhoff's ergodic theorem and has interesting geometric applications to fixed points in the asymptotic average for dynamical systems in

R^{d}

, as well as the fine local behavior of the harmonic measure on conformal planar Cantor sets.

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