# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February  2014, 34(2): 709-732. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.709

## On the derivative of the $\alpha$-Farey-Minkowski function

 1 Department of Mathematics, University Walk, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TW, United Kingdom

Received  February 2013 Revised  April 2013 Published  August 2013

In this paper we study the family of $\alpha$-Farey-Minkowski functions $\theta_\alpha$, for an arbitrary countable partition $\alpha$ of the unit interval with atoms which accumulate only at the origin, which are the conjugating homeomorphisms between each of the $\alpha$-Farey systems and the tent map. We first show that each function $\theta_\alpha$ is singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure and then demonstrate that the unit interval can be written as the disjoint union of the following three sets: $\Theta_0 : = \{x \in [0,1] : \theta_\alpha'(x)=0\}, \Theta_{\infty} : = \{ x \in [0,1] : \theta_\alpha'(x)=\infty \}$ and $\Theta_\sim : = \{ x \in [0,1] : \theta_\alpha'(x)\ does\ not\ exist \}$. The main result is that $\dim_{\mathrm{H}}(\Theta_\infty)=\dim_{\mathrm{H}}(\Theta_\sim)=\sigma_\alpha(\log2)<\dim_{\mathrm{H}}(\Theta_0)=1,$ where $\sigma_\alpha(\log2)$ denotes the Hausdorff dimension of the level set $\{x\in [0,1]:\Lambda(F_\alpha, x)=\log2\}$ and $\Lambda(F_\alpha, x)$ is the Lyapunov exponent of the map $F_\alpha$ at the point $x$. The proof of the theorem employs the multifractal formalism for $\alpha$-Farey systems.
Citation: Sara Munday. On the derivative of the $\alpha$-Farey-Minkowski function. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2014, 34 (2) : 709-732. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.709
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