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Hausdorff dimension of sets of non-differentiability points of Cantor functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Richard Darst
Richard Darst
Affiliation:
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Each number a in the segment (0, ½) produces a Cantor set, Ca, by putting b = 1 − 2a and recursively removing segments of relative length b from the centres of the interval [0, 1] and the intervals which are subsequently generated. The distribution function of the uniform probability measure on Ca is a Cantor function, fa. When a = 1/3 = b, Ca is the standard Cantor set, C, and fa is the standard Cantor function, f. The upper derivative of f is infinite at each point of C and the lower derivative of f is infinite at most points of C in the following sense: the Hausdorff dimension of C is ln(2)/ln(3) and the Hausdorff dimension of S = {x ∈ C: the lower derivative of f is finite at x} is [ln(2)/ln(3)]2. The derivative of f is zero off C, the derivative of f is infinite on C — S, and S is the set of non-differentiability points of f. Similar results are established in this paper for all Ca: the Hausdorff dimension of Ca is ln (2)/ln (1/a) and the Hausdorff dimension of Sa is [ln (2)/ln (1/a)]2. Removing k segments of relative length b and leaving k + 1 intervals of relative length a produces a Cantor set of dimension ln(k + l)/ln(1/a); the dimension of the set of non-differentiability points of the corresponding Cantor function is [ln (k + l)/ln (1/a)]2.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 117 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 185 - 191
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1995

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