We investigate the geodesic motion in D−dimensional Majumdar-Papapetrou multi-black hole spacetimes and find that the qualitative features of the D = 4 case are shared by the higher dimensional configurations. The motion of timelike and null particles is chaotic, the phase space being divided into basins of attraction which are separated by a fractal boundary, with a fractal dimension dB . The ...

In his groundbreaking work, ‘The Fractal Geometry of Nature’ (Mandelbrot, 1982), Benoit Mandelbrot described how fractals could account for a long list of natural forms ranging from trees to coastlines. Two recent studies in Science and The EMBO Journal have suggested that chromatin and the nucleoplasmic space surrounding it should be added to the fractal list. Fractals are ‘self-similar’, mean...

In this paper we define weak $F$-contractions on a‎ ‎metric space into itself by extending $F$-contractions‎ ‎introduced by D‎. ‎Wardowski (2012) and provide some fixed point‎ ‎results in complete metric spaces and in partially ordered complete ‎generalized metric spaces‎. ‎Some relationships between weak‎ ‎$F$-contractions and $Fi$-contractions are highlighted‎. ‎We also ‎give some application...

Approximation of natural objects (curves, surfaces, or images) with fractal models is an important center of interest for research. The general inverse problem paradigm concerns many application fields and a large variety of studies have been proposed to address it.The most known of them is the fractal image compression method introduced by Jacquin. Generally speaking, these techniques lack of ...

Riesz potentials and Laplacian of fractal measures in metric spaces are introduced. They deene self{adjoint operators in the Hilbert space L 2 () and the former are shown to be compact. In the euclidean case the corresponding spectral asymptotics are derived by Besov space methods. The inverses of the Riesz potentials are fractal pseudo-diierential operators. For the Laplace operator the spectr...