Hölder-Differentiability of Gibbs Distribution Functions

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2007-03-29MFO Scientific Program
Research in Pairs 2007Series
Oberwolfach Preprints;2007,13Author
Keßeböhmer, Marc
Stratmann, Bernd
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Abstract
In this paper we give non-trivial applications of the thermodynamic formalism to the theory of distribution functions of Gibbs measures (devil’s staircases) supported on limit sets of finitely generated conformal iterated function systems in $\mathbb{R}$. For a large class of these Gibbs states we determine the Hausdorff dimension of the set of points at which the distribution function of these measures is not $\alpha$-Hölder-differentiable. The obtained results give significant extensions of recent work by Darst, Dekking, Falconer, Li, Morris, and Xiao. In particular, our results clearly show that the results of these authors have their natural home within thermodynamic formalism.