Differentiability of a two-parameter family of self-affine functions

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2017.01.073MaRDI QIDQ2408754zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pieter C. Allaart

Publication date 13 October 2017

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07838

zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff dimensionbeta-expansionThue-Morse sequenceKomornik-Loreti constantcontinuous nowhere differentiable functioninfinite derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hausdorff and packing measures (28A78) Fractals (28A80) Nondifferentiability (nondifferentiable functions, points of nondifferentiability), discontinuous derivatives (26A27)

Abstract: This paper highlights an unexpected connection between expansions of real numbers to noninteger bases (so-called {em $$-expansions}) and the infinite derivatives of a class of self-affine functions. Precisely, we extend Okamoto's function (itself a generalization of the well-known functions of Perkins and Katsuura) to a two-parameter family $F_{N,a}:NinmathbbN,ain(0,1)$. We first show that for each $x$, $F_{N^{\prime },a}(x)$ is either $0$, $pminfty$, or undefined. We then extend Okamoto's theorem by proving that for each $N$, depending on the value of $a$ relative to a pair of thresholds, the set $x:F_{N^{\prime },a}(x)=0$ is either empty, uncountable but Lebesgue null, or of full Lebesgue measure. We compute its Hausdorff dimension in the second case. The second result is a characterization of the set $mathcal{D}_{i}nfty(a):=x:F_{N^{\prime },a}(x)=pminfty$, which enables us to closely relate this set to the set of points which have a unique expansion in the (typically noninteger) base $$. Recent advances in the theory of $$-expansions are then used to determine the cardinality and Hausdorff dimension of $mathcal{D}_{i}nfty(a)$, which depends qualitatively on the value of $a$ relative to a second pair of thresholds.

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