Does randomness in multifractals imply latent dimensions?

Wei-Xing Zhou, Zun-Hong Yu

Published 2004-01-06Version 1

Negative, or latent, dimensions have always attracted a strong interest since their discovery. When randomness is introduced in multifractals, the sample-to-sample fluctuations of multifractal spectra emerge inevitably, which has motivated various studies in this field. In this work, we study a class of multinomial measures and argue the asymptotic behaviors of the multifractal function as . The so-called latent dimensions condition (LDC) is presented which states that latent dimensions may be absent in discrete random multinomial measures. In order to clarify the discovery, several examples are illustrated.