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The fractal structures of the exceptional sets of Lévy processes

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In this paper we review some results on the fractal geometry properties of the sets of thick points, thin points, fast points and slow points derived from Lévy processes.

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    LingTao Kong, Dan Shen & XiaoYu Hu

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10871200)

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Kong, L., Shen, D. & Hu, X. The fractal structures of the exceptional sets of Lévy processes. Sci. China Ser. A-Math. 52, 1459–1466 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-009-0107-6

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