Abstract

We describe -- going back to the early eighties -- a few ideas occurring in some papers by physicists and mathematicians concerning the dynamical properties of certain fractal structures and we outline an effective metric theory devised to bring these ideas together, in a metric framework of pseudo-Riemannian type.

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Keywords

  • Fractals
  • quasi-distances
  • doubling measures
  • Lagrangeans

Mathematics Subject Classification

46E35; 28A80

Suggested citation

U. Mosco. “Energy Functionals on Certain Fractal Structures.” Journal of Convex Analysis 9 (2002), No. 2, 581–600.

Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2002