The decimation method for Laplacians on fractals: spectra and complex dynamics

DOI10.1090/CONM/601/11959zbMATH Open1321.58014arXiv1302.4007OpenAlexW1522675983MaRDI QIDQ2949970FDOQ2949970

Authors: Nishu Lal, Michel L. Lapidus 

Publication date: 5 October 2015

Published in: Fractal Geometry and Dynamical Systems in Pure and Applied Mathematics II (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this survey article, we investigate the spectral properties of fractal differential operators on self-similar fractals. In particular, we discuss the decimation method, which introduces a renormalization map whose dynamics describes the spectrum of the operator. In the case of the bounded Sierpinski gasket, the renormalization map is a polynomial of one variable on the complex plane. The decimation method has been generalized by C. Sabot to other fractals with blow-ups and the resulting associated renormalization map is then a multi-variable rational function on a complex projective space. Furthermore, the dynamics associated with the iteration of the renormalization map plays a key role in obtaining a suitable factorization of the spectral zeta function of fractal differential operators. In this context, we discuss the works of A. Teplyaev and of the authors regarding the examples of the bounded and unbounded Sierpinski gaskets as well as of fractal Sturm-Liouville differential operators on the half-line.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4007

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemann zeta functionfractal Sturm-Liouville operatorsLaplacians on Sierpiński gasket

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractals (28A80) Dirichlet forms (31C25) Dynamics of complex polynomials, rational maps, entire and meromorphic functions; Fatou and Julia sets (37F10) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) PDEs on graphs and networks (ramified or polygonal spaces) (35R02) Relations of PDEs on manifolds with hyperfunctions (58J15) Renormalization of holomorphic dynamical systems (37F25) Meromorphic functions of several complex variables (32A20)

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