Fractal wavelet dimensions and localization

Abstract

In this paper we want to give a new definition of fractal dimensions as small scale behavior of theq-energy of wavelet transforms. This is a generalization of previous multi-fractal approaches. With this particular definition we will show that the 2-dimension (=correlation dimension) of the spectral measure determines the long time behavior of the time evolution generated by a bounded self-adjoint operator acting in some Hilbert space ℋ. It will be proved that for φ, ψ∈ℋ we have $$\mathop {\lim \inf }\limits_{T \to \infty } \frac{{\log \int_0^T {d\omega \left| {\left\langle {\psi \left| {e^{ - iA\omega } } \right.\phi } \right\rangle } \right|^2 } }}{{\log T}} = - \kappa ^ + (2)$$ and that $$\mathop {\lim \sup }\limits_{T \to \infty } \frac{{\log \int_0^T {d\omega \left| {\left\langle {\psi \left| {e^{ - iA\omega } } \right.\phi } \right\rangle } \right|^2 } }}{{\log T}} = - \kappa ^ - (2),$$ wherek±(2) are the upper and lower correlation dimensions of the spectral measure associated with ψ and ϕ. A quantitative version of the RAGE theorem shall also be given.