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Zbl 0873.42019
Jaffard, Stéphane; Meyer, Yves
Wavelet methods for pointwise regularity and local oscillations of functions. (English)
[J] Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 587, 110 p. (1996). ISSN 0065-9266

This monograph discusses pointwise Hölder regularity of functions, especially when this regularity is not uniform but varies wildly from point to point. The main tool is the use of two-microlocalization spaces which allow to study how singularities deteriorate in a smooth environment and conversely. Such spaces can be characterized in terms of decay conditions in the Littlewood-Paley decomposition or the continuous wavelet transform. These two-microlocalizations are introduced in Chapter I and as an application, the pointwise singularity of elliptic operators is investigated. In Chapter 2, singularities in Sobolev spaces are discussed. Depending on the type of singularity, the Hausdorff or packing dimension of the set where a certain Hölder type condition holds is estimated. Chapter 3 investigates the relation between wavelet expansions and lacunary trigonometric series. Especially selfsimilarity and very strong oscillatory (chirp-like) behaviour is discussed. Such trigonometric or logarithmic chirps are studied in more detail in the subsequent three chapters. There is for example a simple characterization of such chirps in terms of certain conditions that their wavelet transform should satisfy. The chirp-like behaviour of the Riemann function $\sum n^{-2}\sin\pi n^2 x$ is by now well known and is discussed in the last chapter. It has a trigonometric chirp in the rational points $(2p+1)/(2q+1)$ where $p$ and $q$ are integers, and a logarithmic chirp at the quadratic irrationals.
[A.Bultheel (Leuven)]

MSC 2000:: *42C40 Wavelets
26A16 Lipschitz classes, etc. (one real variable)
28A80 Fractals
26A30 Real functions of one real variable with other special properties
42B25 Maximal functions
42A16 Fourier coefficients, etc.
26A27 Nondifferentiability of functions of one real variable

Keywords: wavelets; Littlewood-Paley decomposition; two-microlocalization; modulus of continuity; Hausdorff dimension; chirps; selfsimilarity; Riemann function; pointwise Hölder regularity

Cited in: Zbl 0891.42019

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