Multifractal analysis of measures arising from random substitutions

Abstract

We study regularity properties of frequency measures arising from random substitutions, which are a generalisation of (deterministic) substitutions where the substituted image of each letter is chosen independently from a fixed finite set. In particular, for a natural class of such measures, we derive a closed-form analytic formula for the $L^q$-spectrum and prove that the multifractal formalism holds. This provides an interesting new class of measures satisfying the multifractal formalism. More generally, we establish results concerning the $L^q$-spectrum of a broad class of frequency measures. We introduce a new notion called the inflation word $L^q$-spectrum of a random substitution and show that this coincides with the $L^q$-spectrum of the corresponding frequency measure for all $q\ge 0$. As an application, we obtain closed-form formulas under separation conditions and recover known results for topological and measure theoretic entropy.

49 pages, 3 figures. Minor typo fixes and updated references. To appear in Comm. Math. Phys