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Almost sure multifractal spectrum for the tip of an SLE curve
The tip multifractal spectrum of a two-dimensional curve is one way to
describe the behavior of the uniformizing conformal map of the complement near
the tip. We give the tip multifractal spectrum for a Schramm-Loewner evolution
(SLE) curve, we prove that the spectrum is valid with probability one, and we
give applications to the scaling of harmonic measure at the tip.Comment: 43 pages, 2 figure
Measures and functions with prescribed homogeneous multifractal spectrum
In this paper we construct measures supported in with prescribed
multifractal spectrum. Moreover, these measures are homogeneously multifractal
(HM, for short), in the sense that their restriction on any subinterval of
has the same multifractal spectrum as the whole measure. The spectra
that we are able to prescribe are suprema of a countable set of step
functions supported by subintervals of and satisfy for all
. We also find a surprising constraint on the multifractal spectrum
of a HM measure: the support of its spectrum within must be an
interval. This result is a sort of Darboux theorem for multifractal spectra of
measures. This result is optimal, since we construct a HM measure with spectrum
supported by . Using wavelet theory, we also build HM functions
with prescribed multifractal spectrum.Comment: 34 pages, 6 figure
The components of empirical multifractality in financial returns
We perform a systematic investigation on the components of the empirical
multifractality of financial returns using the daily data of Dow Jones
Industrial Average from 26 May 1896 to 27 April 2007 as an example. The
temporal structure and fat-tailed distribution of the returns are considered as
possible influence factors. The multifractal spectrum of the original return
series is compared with those of four kinds of surrogate data: (1) shuffled
data that contain no temporal correlation but have the same distribution, (2)
surrogate data in which any nonlinear correlation is removed but the
distribution and linear correlation are preserved, (3) surrogate data in which
large positive and negative returns are replaced with small values, and (4)
surrogate data generated from alternative fat-tailed distributions with the
temporal correlation preserved. We find that all these factors have influence
on the multifractal spectrum. We also find that the temporal structure (linear
or nonlinear) has minor impact on the singularity width of the
multifractal spectrum while the fat tails have major impact on ,
which confirms the earlier results. In addition, the linear correlation is
found to have only a horizontal translation effect on the multifractal spectrum
in which the distance is approximately equal to the difference between its DFA
scaling exponent and 0.5. Our method can also be applied to other financial or
physical variables and other multifractal formalisms.Comment: 6 epl page
Fractal Dimensionof the El Salvador Earthquake (2001) time Series
We have estimated multifractal spectrum of the El Salvador earthquake signal
recorded at different locations.Comment: multifractal analysi
Large Deviations and the Distribution of Price Changes
The Multifractal Model of Asset Returns ("MMAR," see Mandelbrot, Fisher, and Calvet, 1997) proposes a class of multifractal processes for the modelling of financial returns. In that paper, multifractal processes are defined by a scaling law for moments of the processes' increments over finite time intervals. In the present paper, we discuss the local behavior of multifractal processes. We employ local Holder exponents, a fundamental concept in real analysis that describes the local scaling properties of a realized path at any point in time. In contrast with the standard models of continuous time finance, multifractal processes contain a multiplicity of local Holder exponents within any finite time interval. We characterize the distribution of Holder exponents by the multifractal spectrum of the process. For a broad class of multifractal processes, this distribution can be obtained by an application of Cramer's Large Deviation Theory. In an alternative interpretation, the multifractal spectrum describes the fractal dimension of the set of points having a given local Holder exponent. Finally, we show how to obtain processes with varied spectra. This allows the applied researcher to relate an empirical estimate of the multifractal spectrum back to a particular construction of the Stochastic process.Multifractal model of asset returns, multifractal spectrum, compound stochastic process, subordinated stochastic process, time deformation, scaling laws, self-similarity, self-affinity
Recurrence spectrum in smooth dynamical systems
We prove that for conformal expanding maps the return time does have constant
multifractal spectrum. This is the counterpart of the result by Feng and Wu in
the symbolic setting
Multifractality and percolation in the coupling space of perceptrons
The coupling space of perceptrons with continuous as well as with binary
weights gets partitioned into a disordered multifractal by a set of random input patterns. The multifractal spectrum can be
calculated analytically using the replica formalism. The storage capacity and
the generalization behaviour of the perceptron are shown to be related to
properties of which are correctly described within the replica
symmetric ansatz. Replica symmetry breaking is interpreted geometrically as a
transition from percolating to non-percolating cells. The existence of empty
cells gives rise to singularities in the multifractal spectrum. The analytical
results for binary couplings are corroborated by numerical studies.Comment: 13 pages, revtex, 4 eps figures, version accepted for publication in
Phys. Rev.
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