Projections of planar Mandelbrot random measures

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Abstract: Let mu be a planar Mandelbrot measure and pi∗mu its orthogonal projection on one of the main axes. We study the thermodynamic and geometric properties of pi∗mu. We first show that pi∗mu is exactly dimensional, with dim(pi∗mu)=min(dim(mu),dim(u)), where~u is the Bernoulli product measure obtained as the expectation of pi∗mu. We also prove that pi∗mu is absolutely continuous with respect to u if and only if dim(mu)>dim(u), and find sufficient conditions for the equivalence of these measures. Our results provides a new proof of Dekking-Grimmett-Falconer formula for the Hausdorff and box dimension of the topological support of pi∗mu, as well as a new variational interpretation. We obtain the free energy function aupi∗mu of pi∗mu on a wide subinterval [0,qc) of mathbbR+. For qin[0,1], it is given by a variational formula which sometimes yields phase transitions of order larger than~1. For q>1, it is given by min(auu,aumu), which can exhibit first order phase transitions. This is in contrast with the analyticity of aumu over [0,qc). Also, we prove the validity of the multifractal formalism for pi∗mu at each alphain(aup′i∗mu(qc−),aup′i∗mu(0+)].


In the early 70's Mandelbrot introduced the so-called Mandelbrot measures as a simplified model for energy dissipitation in intermittent turbulance. He initially studied the geometric properties of this measure. Mandelbrot measures along with self-similar measures and Gibbs measures are typical objects describing the multifractal formalism and are also excellent tools for the geometrical description of the distribution of a measure at small scales. The authors of the present paper study the multifractal structure of the orthogonal projections of a Mandelbrot measure \(\mu\) on the horizontal and vertical axes and its relationship with that of \(\mu\). The authors' main work is on the symbolic space \(\{0,\ldots, m-1\}^{\mathbb{N}}\times\{0,\ldots, m-1\}^{\mathbb{N}}\).



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