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Fourier Dimensions of Mandelbrot Cascades under Minimal Integrability

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Pith's one-line read Mandelbrot cascade measures have Fourier dimension equal to their energy exponent almost surely under minimal integrability.

desk verdict This note gives exact Fourier dimension formulas for Mandelbrot cascades under the minimal Kahane-Peyrière condition, with a new balanced vector-weight model that allows sibling dependence. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.08703 v2 pith:SGY7DJWG submitted 2026-06-07 math.PR

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This paper establishes exact formulas showing that Mandelbrot cascade measures, when their weights satisfy the minimal Kahane-Peyrière integrability condition, have Fourier dimension equal to the energy exponent almost surely on non-extinction. The same equality holds simultaneously for the energy dimension and the L2 dimension. The result is proved first for dyadic intervals using a balanced vector weight model that permits dependence between sibling weights, then extended to b-adic cubes where the Fourier dimension is the minimum of two and the energy exponent. A reader would care because equating these three dimensions under the weakest integrability assumption supplies a single computable parameter that governs the measure's regularity, its spectral decay, and its local scaling behavior in random fractal constructions.

What carries the argument

The energy exponent of the cascade weights, which forces the Fourier, energy, and L2 dimensions to coincide under the minimal integrability condition in the balanced vector weight model.

What would settle it

A concrete choice of weights obeying the minimal integrability condition for which the Fourier dimension is strictly smaller than the energy exponent on a set of positive probability conditional on non-extinction.

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Core claim

The central claim is that almost surely on non-extinction the Fourier, energy, and L2 dimensions of the canonical Mandelbrot cascade measure all equal the energy exponent. In the scalar specialization this recovers the canonical Mandelbrot-Kahane Fourier dimension formula under minimal integrability. On the circle the endpoint formula is supplied by the endpoint lower local dimension exponent. For the b-adic Mandelbrot cascade on cubes the Fourier dimension equals the minimum of two and the energy exponent, the universal Fourier barrier at dimension two supplying the high-dimensional obstruction.

Load-bearing premise

The weights of the cascade satisfy the minimal Kahane-Peyrière integrability condition.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The three dimensions become interchangeable, so any one can be used to compute the others.
  • In the b-adic cube setting the Fourier dimension cannot exceed two regardless of the energy exponent.
  • On the circle the Fourier dimension at the endpoint is controlled by the lower local dimension exponent.
  • The scalar-weight case yields the classical Mandelbrot-Kahane formula at the boundary of integrability.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Numerical generation of cascades could replace separate Fourier-coefficient calculations with direct evaluation of the energy exponent.
  • The coincidence of dimensions may extend to other classes of dependent random measures that satisfy analogous integrability conditions.
  • Harmonic analysis on random fractals could treat the energy exponent as the sole parameter governing multiple notions of dimension.
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Summary. The manuscript proves that under the minimal Kahane-Peyrière integrability condition, the Fourier dimension, energy dimension, and L² dimension of canonical Mandelbrot cascade measures all equal the energy exponent almost surely on the non-extinction event. The result is established first in the dyadic interval setting via a balanced vector-weight model that permits dependence among sibling weights, then extended to the b-adic setting on cubes, where the Fourier dimension equals min(2, energy exponent) owing to the universal barrier at dimension two. The scalar case recovers the canonical Mandelbrot-Kahane Fourier-dimension formula under minimal integrability.

Significance. If the central equality holds, the work supplies exact Fourier-dimension formulas for these random measures under the weakest integrability assumptions currently known, confirms the coincidence of Fourier, energy, and L² dimensions, and handles the dimensional obstruction at two. The vector-weight model with dependence is a technical advance that broadens applicability beyond independent weights.

minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract states that 'the endpoint formula is given by the endpoint lower local dimension exponent' on the circle; the manuscript should explicitly identify this exponent and its relation to the energy exponent in the relevant theorem statement.
  2. Notation for the energy exponent and the minimal integrability condition should be introduced with a numbered display equation in the introduction to facilitate cross-reference in the dyadic and b-adic sections.

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We thank the referee for their positive summary, significance assessment, and recommendation to accept the manuscript. We are pleased that the contribution is viewed as supplying exact Fourier-dimension formulas under minimal integrability and as advancing the vector-weight model.

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full rationale

The paper states and proves that, almost surely on non-extinction and under the minimal Kahane-Peyrière integrability condition, the Fourier, energy, and L2 dimensions equal the energy exponent in both the dyadic balanced vector-weight model and the b-adic cube extension. The equality is derived from the energy exponent via the stated integrability assumption rather than by redefinition, fitted-parameter renaming, or load-bearing self-citation. No equations or steps reduce the claimed result to its own inputs by construction; the derivation is presented as self-contained against the external integrability hypothesis.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central result rests on the minimal integrability condition as the key domain assumption enabling the dimension equality; no free parameters or invented entities are indicated in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption Minimal Kahane-Peyrière integrability condition
    Invoked as the threshold under which the Fourier dimension equals the energy exponent almost surely.

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This note announces exact Fourier dimension formulas for canonical Mandelbrot cascade measures under the minimal Kahane Peyriere integrability condition and records the canonical b adic extension on cubes. In the dyadic interval setting, the theorem is proved in a balanced vector weight model allowing dependence between sibling weights. Almost surely on non extinction, the Fourier, energy, and L2 dimensions all equal the energy exponent. The scalar specialization gives the canonical Mandelbrot Kahane Fourier dimension formula under the minimal integrability condition. On the circle, the endpoint formula is given by the endpoint lower local dimension exponent. For the b adic Mandelbrot cascade on cubes, the Fourier dimension is the minimum of 2 and the energy exponent, with the universal Fourier barrier at dimension two providing the high dimensional obstruction.

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    Under minimal Kahane-Peyriere integrability, dyadic Mandelbrot cascades satisfy dim_F(mu) = dim_E(mu) = dim_2(mu) = D_E(X) almost surely on non-extinction, with explicit sup formulas for scalar and circle cases.

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