Random conformal snowflakes

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Abstract: In many problems of classical analysis extremal configurations appear to exhibit complicated fractal structure. This makes it much harder to describe extremals and to attack such problems. Many of these problems are related to the multifractal analysis of harmonic measure. We argue that, searching for extremals in such problems, one should work with random fractals rather than deterministic ones. We introduce a new class of fractals random conformal snowflakes and investigate its properties developing tools to estimate spectra and showing that extremals can be found in this class. As an application we significantly improve known estimates from below on the extremal behaviour of harmonic measure, showing how to constuct a rather simple snowflake, which has a spectrum quite close to the conjectured extremal value.


The authors report on their search for extremal fractals. They argue that one should study random fractals instead of deterministic ones, introduce a new class of random fractals, called random conformal snowflakes, and investigate their properties. As a consequence, the authors significantly improve known estimates for the multifractal spectra of the harmonic measure. It is shown that, for this class, the average integral means spectrum, \(\overline\beta(t)\), is related to the main eigenvalue of a particular integral operator. Also, fractal approximation for this class is proved. An example of a snowflake is given. For this snowflake, it is proved that \(\overline\beta(t)> 0.2308\). This significantly improves the previously known estimate for the universal spectrum, \(B(1) > 0.17\), due to \textit{Ch. Pommerenke} [Univalent functions. With a chapter on quadratic differentials by Gerd Jensen. Studia Mathematica/Mathematische Lehrbücher. Band XXV. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck \& Ruprecht (1975; Zbl 0298.30014)].











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