How smooth is almost every function in a Sobolev space?
Author(s) -
Aurélia Fraysse,
Stéphane Jaffard
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
revista matemática iberoamericana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.569
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 2235-0616
pISSN - 0213-2230
DOI - 10.4171/rmi/469
Subject(s) - multifractal system , sobolev space , hausdorff dimension , mathematics , point (geometry) , fractal , space (punctuation) , function (biology) , dimension (graph theory) , pure mathematics , fractal dimension , hausdorff space , dimension function , besov space , sobolev inequality , mathematical analysis , interpolation space , geometry , computer science , operating system , biochemistry , chemistry , functional analysis , evolutionary biology , gene , biology
We show that almost every function (in the sense of prevalence) in a Sobolev space is multifractal: Its regularity changes from point to point; the sets of points with a given Holder regularity are fractal sets, and we determine their Hausdor dimension.
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