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Zoltán Buczolich

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Level sets of prevalent Weierstrass functions

The $α$-Weierstrass function is defined as $W_g^{α,b}(x) = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} b^{-αk} g(b^k x)$, where $g$ is a Lipschitz function on the unit circle. For a prevalent $α$-Weierstrass function, we prove that the upper Minkowski dimension of every level set is at most $1-α$, and the Hausdorff dimension of almost every level set equals $1-α$ with respect to its occupation measure. We further demonstrate that the occupation measure of a prevalent $α$-Weierstrass function is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. Consequently, the result on the Hausdorff dimension of level sets applies to a set of level sets with positive Lebesgue measure. A central tool in our analysis is the Weierstrass embedding. For a sufficiently large dimension $d$, we construct Lipschitz functions $g_0, g_1, \ldots, g_{d-1}$ such that the mapping $x \mapsto \big(W_{g_0}^{α,b}(x), W_{g_1}^{α,b}(x), \ldots, W_{g_{d-1}}^{α,b}(x)\big)$ is $α$-bi-Hölder. We also prove that such an embedding requires at least $1/α$ coordinate functions.

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The multifractal nature of a parametrized family of von Koch functions

In a famous paper published in 1904, Helge von Koch introduced the curve that still serves nowadays as an iconic representation of fractal shapes. In fact, von Koch's main goal was the construction of a continuous but nowhere differentiable function, very similar to the snowflake, using elementary geometric procedures, and not analytical formulae. We prove that a parametrized family of functions (including and) generalizing von Koch's example enjoys a rich multifractal behavior, thus enriching the class of historical mathematical objects having surprising regularity properties. The analysis relies on the study of the orbits of an underlying dynamical system and on the introduction of self-similar measures and non-trivial iterated functions systems adapted to the problem.

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Exact formula on upper box dimension of generic Hölder level sets

In the previous decades, the size of level sets of functions have been extensively studied in various setups involving different regularity properties and size notions. In the case of Hölder functions, the authors have provided various bounds, but to date no explicit formulae have been found for any studied dimension and the results were valid only about very specific fractals. In this paper, for the first time, we have a result valid for a large class of self-similar sets, namely we prove that for these fractals Lebesgue almost every level set of the generic 1-Hölder-$α$ function defined on $F\subseteq \mathbb{R}^p$ has upper box dimension $\dim_H F - α$.

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Purely unrectifiable sets, fractal percolation and graphs of functions

This paper contains a survey of some of the results of the author related to unrectifiablity and is an extended version of the author's talk given at the Second Winter School Geometric Measure Theory Rectifiability vs. Pure Unrectifiability in Hanghzou, China. These results include irregular/purely unrectifiable $1$-sets on the graphs of continuous functions like the Takagi, the Weierstrass-Cellerier and the typical (in the sense of Baire) continuous function. It is also discussed that there exists $ α_{0}<1$ such that the fractal percolation is almost surely purely $α$-unrectifiable for all $α>α_0$. The background of the $1$-unrectifiability is discussed in more detail.

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Dynamics of the Takagi function and the shadowing property

The Takagi function $T:[0,1]\to \mathbb{R}$ is a classical example of a continuous nowhere differentiable function. In this paper, we study the discrete dynamical system generated by the Takagi function. First, we prove that for almost every point $x\in [0,1]$, the orbit $(T^n(x))_n$ converges to $2/3$. We introduce the family of Takagi maps, given by $\textbf{T}_γ=γ\cdot T$, where $γ>0$ is a parameter. We also study the shadowing property for this family of maps. We show that the Takagi function has the shadowing property. Additionally, we provide two distinct techniques that allow us to find values of the parameter $γ$ for which $\textbf{T}_γ$ fails to have the shadowing property. Finally, we pose some open questions.

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Better estimates of Hölder thickness of fractals

Dimensions of level sets of generic continuous functions and generic Hölder functions defined on a fractal $F$ encode information about the geometry, ``the thickness" of $F$. While in the continuous case this quantity is related to a reasonably tame dimension notion which is called the topological Hausdorff dimension of $F$, the Hölder case seems to be highly nontrivial. A number of earlier papers attempted to deal with this problem, carrying out investigation in the case of Hausdorff dimension and box dimension. In this paper we continue our study of the Hausdorff dimension of almost every level set of generic $1$-Hölder-$ α$ functions, denoted by $D_{*}( α, F)$. We substantially improve previous lower and upper bounds on $D_{*}( α, Δ)$, where $Δ$ is the Sierpiński triangle, achieving asymptotically equal bounds as $α\to 0+$. Using a similar argument, we also give an even stronger lower bound on the generic lower box dimension of level sets. Finally, we construct a connected fractal $F$ on which there is a phase transition of $D_{*}( α, F)$, thus providing the first example exhibiting this behavior.

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Box dimension of generic Hölder level sets

Hausdorff dimension of level sets of generic continuous functions defined on fractals can give information about the "thickness/narrow cross-sections" "network" corresponding to a fractal set, $F$. This lead to the definition of the topological Hausdorff dimension of fractals. Finer information might be obtained by considering the Hausdorff dimension of level sets of generic $1$-Hölder-$α$ functions, which has a stronger dependence on the geometry of the fractal, as displayed in our previous papers. In this paper, we extend our investigations to the lower and upper box-counting dimension as well: while the former yields results highly resembling the ones about Hausdorff dimension of level sets, the latter exhibits a different behaviour. Instead of "finding narrow-cross sections", results related to upper box-counting dimension try to "measure" how much level sets can spread out on the fractal, how widely the generic function can "oscillate" on it. Key differences are illustrated by giving estimates concerning the Sierpiński triangle.

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Almost everywhere convergence questions of series of translates of non-negative functions

This survey paper is based on a talk given at the 44th Summer Symposium in Real Analysis in Paris. This line of research was initiated by a question of Haight and Weizsäker concerning almost everywhere convergence properties of series of the form $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}f(nx)$. A more general, additive version of this problem is the following: Suppose $Λ$ is a discrete infinite set of nonnegative real numbers. We say that $ Λ$ is of type 1 if the series $s(x)=\sum_{λ\inΛ}f(x+λ)$ satisfies a zero-one law. This means that for any non-negative measurable $f: {\mathbb R}\to [0,+ {\infty})$ either the convergence set $C(f, Λ)=\{x: s(x)<+ {\infty} \}= {\mathbb R}$ modulo sets of Lebesgue zero, or its complement the divergence set $D(f, Λ)=\{x: s(x)=+ {\infty} \}= {\mathbb R}$ modulo sets of measure zero. If $ Λ$ is not of type 1 we say that $ Λ$ is of type 2. The exact characterization of type $1$ and type $2$ sets is still not known. The part of the paper discussing results concerning this question is based on several joint papers written at the beginning with J-P. Kahane and D. Mauldin, later with B. Hanson, B. Maga and G. Vértesy. Apart from results from the above project we also cover historic background, other related results and open questions.

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Generic Hölder level sets and fractal conductivity

Hausdorff dimensions of level sets of generic continuous functions defined on fractals can give information about the "thickness/narrow cross-sections'' of a "network" corresponding to a fractal set, $F$. This lead to the definition of the topological Hausdorff dimension of fractals. In this paper we continue our study of the level sets of generic $1$-Hölder-$α$ functions. While in a previous paper we gave the initial definitions and established some properties of these generic level sets, in this paper we provide numerical estimates in the case of the Sierpiński triangle. These calculations give better insight and illustrate why can one think of these generic $1$-Hölder-$α$ level sets as something measuring "thickness/narrow cross-sections/conductivity'' of a fractal "network". We also give an example for the phenomenon which we call phase transition for $D_{*}(α, F)$. This roughly means that for a certain lower range { of $α$s } only the geometry of $F$ determines $D_{*}(α, F)$ while for larger values the Hölder exponent, $α$ also matters.

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Measures, annuli and dimensions

Given a Radon probability measure $μ$ supported in $\mathbb{R}^d$, we are interested in those points $x$ around which the measure is concentrated infinitely many times on thin annuli centered at $x$. Depending on the lower and upper dimension of $μ$, the metric used in the space and the thinness of the annuli, we obtain results and examples when such points are of $μ$-measure $0$ or of $μ$-measure $1$. The measure concentration we study is related to ''bad points'' for the Poincaré recurrence theorem and to the first return times to shrinking balls under iteration generated by a weakly Markov dynamical system. The study of thin annuli and spherical averages is also important in many dimension-related problems, including Kakeya-type problems and Falconer's distance set conjecture.

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Continuous functions with impermeable graphs

We construct a Hölder continuous function on the unit interval which coincides in uncountably (in fact continuum) many points with every function of total variation smaller than 1 passing through the origin. We say that a function with this property has impermeable graph, and we present further examples of functions both with permeable and impermeable graphs. The first example function is subsequently used to construct an example of a continuous function on the plane which is intrinsically Lipschitz continuous on the complement of the graph of a Hölder continuous function with impermeable graph, but which is not Lipschitz continuous on the plane. As another main result we construct a continuous function on the unit interval which coincides in a set of Hausdorff dimension 1 with every function of total variation smaller than 1 which passes through the origin.

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Generic Hölder level sets on Fractals

Hausdorff dimensions of level sets of generic continuous functions defined on fractals were considered in two papers by R. Balka, Z. Buczolich and M. Elekes. In those papers the topological Hausdorff dimension of fractals was defined. In this paper we start to study level sets of generic $1$-Hölder-$α$ functions defined on fractals. This is related to some sort of "thickness", "conductivity" properties of fractals. The main concept of our paper is $D_{*}(α, F)$ which is the essential supremum of the Hausdorff dimensions of the level sets of a generic $1$-Hölder-$α$ function defined on the fractal $F$. We prove some basic properties of $D_{*}(α, F)$, we calculate its value for an example of a "thick fractal sponge", we show that for connected self similar sets $D_{*}(α, F)$ it equals the Hausdorff dimension of almost every level in the range of a generic $1$-Hölder-$α$ function.

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Strong one-sided density without uniform density

In this paper we give an example of a closed, strongly one-sided dense set which is not of uniform density type. We also show that there is a set of uniform density type which is not of strong uniform density type.

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Fractal percolation is unrectifiable

We show that there exists $0<α_0<1$ (depending on the parameters) such that the fractal percolation is almost surely purely $α$-unrectifiable for all $α>α_0$.

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Divergence of weighted square averages in $L^1$

We study convergence of ergodic averages along squares with polynomial weights. For a given polynomial $P\in \mathbb{Z}[\cdot]$, consider the set of all $θ\in[0,1)$ such that for every aperiodic system $(X,μ, T)$ there is a function $f\in L^1(X,μ)$ such that the weighted averages along squares $$ {\frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=1}^N} e(P(n)θ)T^{n^2}f $$ diverge on a set with positive measure. We show that this set is residual and includes the rational numbers as well as a dense set of Liouville numbers. This on one hand extends the divergence result for squares in $L^1$ of the first author and Mauldin and on the other hand shows that the convergence result for linear weights for squares due to the second author and Krause in $L^p$, $p>1$ does not hold for $p=1$.

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Big and little Lipschitz one sets

Given a continuous function $f: {\mathbb R}\to {\mathbb R}$ we denote the so-called "big Lip" and "little lip" functions by $ {\mathrm {Lip}} f$ and $ {\mathrm {lip}} f$ respectively}. In this paper we are interested in the following question. Given a set $E {\subset} {\mathbb R}$ is it possible to find a continuous function $f$ such that $ {\mathrm {lip}} f=\mathbf{1}_E$ or $ {\mathrm {Lip}} f=\mathbf{1}_E$? For monotone continuous functions we provide the rather straightforward answer. For arbitrary continuous functions the answer is much more difficult to find. We introduce the concept of uniform density type (UDT) and show that if $E$ is $G_δ$ and UDT then there exists a continuous function $f$ satisfying $ {\mathrm {Lip}} f =\mathbf{1}_E$, that is, $E$ is a $ {\mathrm {Lip}} 1$ set. In the other direction we show that every ${\mathrm {Lip}} 1$ set is $G_δ$ and weakly dense. We also show that the converse of this statement is not true, namely that there exist weakly dense $G_{δ}$ sets which are not $ {\mathrm {Lip}} 1$. We say that a set $E\subset \mathbb{R}$ is ${\mathrm {lip}} 1$ if there is a continuous function $f$ such that ${\mathrm {lip}} f=\mathbf{1}_E$. We introduce the concept of strongly one-sided density and show that every ${\mathrm {lip}} 1$ set is a strongly one-sided dense $F_σ$ set.

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Characterization of lip sets

We denote the local ``little" Lipschitz constant of a function $f: {\mathbb R}\to { {\mathbb R}}$ by $ {\mathrm{lip}}f$. In this paper we settle the following question: For which sets $E {\subset} { {\mathbb R}}$ is it possible to find a continuous function $f$ such that $ {\mathrm{lip}}f=\mathbf{1} _E$? In an earlier paper we introduced the concept of strongly one-sided dense sets. Our main result characterizes $ {\mathrm{lip}}1$ sets as countable unions of closed sets which are strongly one-sided dense. We also show that a stronger statement is not true i.e. there are strongly one-sided dense $F _σ$ sets which are not $ {\mathrm{lip}}1$.

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Generic Birkhoff Spectra

Suppose that $Ω= \{0, 1\}^ {\mathbb {N}}$ and $ σ$ is the one-sided shift. The Birkhoff spectrum $ \displaystyle S_{f}( α)=\dim_{H}\Big \{ ω\in Ω:\lim_{N \to \infty} \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^N f(σ^n ω) = α\Big \},$ where $\dim_{H}$ is the Hausdorff dimension. It is well-known that the support of $S_{f}( α)$ is a bounded and closed interval $L_f = [α_{f, \min}^*, α_{f, \max}^*]$ and $S_{f}( α)$ on $L_{f}$ is concave and upper semicontinuous. We are interested in possible shapes/properties of the spectrum, especially for generic/typical $f\in C( Ω)$ in the sense of Baire category. For a dense set in $C( Ω)$ the spectrum is not continuous on $ {\mathbb {R}}$, though for the generic $f\in C( Ω)$ the spectrum is continuous on $ {\mathbb {R}}$, but has infinite one-sided derivatives at the endpoints of $L_{f}$. We give an example of a function which has continuous $S_{f}$ on $ {\mathbb {R}}$, but with finite one-sided derivatives at the endpoints of $L_{f}$. The spectrum of this function can be as close as possible to a "minimal spectrum". We use that if two functions $f$ and $g$ are close in $C( Ω)$ then $S_{f}$ and $S_{g}$ are close on $L_{f}$ apart from neighborhoods of the endpoints.

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