Fractal strings and multifractal zeta functions

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DOI10.1007/S11005-009-0302-YzbMATH Open1170.11030arXivmath-ph/0610015OpenAlexW2121808238MaRDI QIDQ835666FDOQ835666


Authors: Michel L. Lapidus, Jacques Lévy-Véhel, John A. Rock Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 31 August 2009

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a Borel measure on the unit interval and a sequence of scales that tend to zero, we define a one-parameter family of zeta functions called multifractal zeta functions. These functions are a first attempt to associate a zeta function to certain multifractal measures. However, we primarily show that they associate a new zeta function, the topological zeta function, to a fractal string in order to take into account the topology of its fractal boundary. This expands upon the geometric information garnered by the traditional geometric zeta function of a fractal string in the theory of complex dimensions. In particular, one can distinguish between a fractal string whose boundary is the classical Cantor set, and one whose boundary has a single limit point but has the same sequence of lengths as the complement of the Cantor set. Later work will address related, but somewhat different, approaches to multifractals themselves, via zeta functions, partly motivated by the present paper.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0610015




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