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2505.09228

Multivariate multifractal analysis of Lévy functions. Part I: Determination of multifractal spectra

Stéphane Jaffard, Lingmin Liao, Qian Zhang

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Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM

Audit review

The paper’s main statement (Theorem 2.3) and overall construction strategy (reduction to b-adic Diophantine approximation, Cantor-type construction, Billingsley lemma) are sound and align with the candidate solution. However, the paper’s proof of the diagonal lower bound invokes a set inclusion E_{Lb^{α1},Lb,y^{α2}}(H1,H2) ⊃ ELb^{α1}(H1) when H2 = (α2/α1)H1 that does not hold in general, leaving a genuine proof gap on that line. The candidate solution correctly reduces the problem and gives plausible constructions for both the rectangle and the diagonal, but the diagonal construction is only sketched and does not rigorously control carries in base-b expansions. Hence both are incomplete: the paper because of a specific proof gap on the diagonal, and the model because key technical steps are not fully justified.

Referee report (LaTeX)

\textbf{Recommendation:} major revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} strong field

\textbf{Justification:}

The manuscript provides an explicit bivariate spectrum for Lévy functions and clarifies how it depends on b-adic Diophantine properties of the shift. The rectangle part is carefully executed via Cantor/Moran constructions and Billingsley’s lemma. However, the proof of the diagonal lower bound relies on an inclusion that is not valid in general, leaving a substantive gap that must be filled. With that repaired and minor notational fixes, this would be a solid contribution to the multifractal analysis literature.