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This article is an extended version of the talk given by the author at the conference “Advances in fractals and related topics”, in December 2012 at the Chinese Hong-Kong University. It gathers recent advances in Mandelbrot cascades theory and related topics, namely branching random walks, directed polymers on disordered trees, multifractal analysis, and dynamical systems.
The author thanks Dr Xiong Jin for his kind help in the figures elaboration.
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Appendix: Hausdorff Measures and Dimension
Appendix: Hausdorff Measures and Dimension
Given \(g:\mathbb {R}_+\rightarrow \mathbb {R}_+\) a continuous non-decreasing function near 0 and such that \(g(0)=0\), and \(E\) a subset of \([0,1]\), the Hausdorff measure of \(E\) with respect to the gauge function \(g\) is defined as
the infimum being taken over all the countable coverings \((U_i)_{i\in \mathbb {N}}\) of \(E\) by subsets of \(K\) of diameters less than or equal to \(\delta \).
If \(s\in \mathbb {R}_+^*\) and \(g(u)=u^s\), then \({\mathcal {H}}^g(E)\) is also denoted \({\mathcal {H}}^s(E)\) and called the \(s\)-dimensional Hausdorff measure of \(E\). Then, the Hausdorff dimension of \(E\) is defined as
with the convention \(\sup \emptyset = 0\) and \(\inf \emptyset =\infty \).
For more information the reader is referred to [Fal03, Mat95].
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Barral, J. (2014). Mandelbrot Cascades and Related Topics. In: Feng, DJ., Lau, KS. (eds) Geometry and Analysis of Fractals. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43920-3_1
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