Dynamics of Mandelbrot Cascades

Julien Barral, Jacques Peyriere, Zhi-Ying Wen

Published 2007-10-10Version 1

Mandelbrot multiplicative cascades provide a construction of a dynamical system on a set of probability measures defined by inequalities on moments. To be more specific, beyond the first iteration, the trajectories take values in the set of fixed points of smoothing transformations (i.e., some generalized stable laws). Studying this system leads to a central limit theorem and to its functional version. The limit Gaussian process can also be obtained as limit of an `additive cascade' of independent normal variables.