Rational Points near Monofractal Curves and the Strong Oscillation Principle
Abstract
In their previous work devoted to the distribution of rational points near Brownian motion, the authors conjectured the existence of an \emph{oscillation principle} governing the asymptotic behavior of the number of rational points with bounded denomi\-nators near the graph of a monofractal curve. In this note, a weaker form of this conjecture is shown to hold for a broad class of deterministic fractal curves. These include the classical Takagi and Weierstrass nowhere differentiable functions, and indeed a prevalent (i.e.~"large") class of functions among those which are Hölder continuous with a given exponent of regularity. This constitutes the first instance of deterministic fractal curves for which a precise count of the rational points under consideration is established.
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BibTeX
@misc{adiceam2026rational,
title = {{Rational Points near Monofractal Curves and the Strong Oscillation Principle}},
author = {Faustin Adiceam and Volodymyr Pavlenkov and Evgeniy Zorin},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.16377},
eprint = {2609.16377},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16377},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Rational Points near Monofractal Curves and the Strong Oscillation Principle
AU - Faustin Adiceam
AU - Volodymyr Pavlenkov
AU - Evgeniy Zorin
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/14
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.16377
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16377
AB - In their previous work devoted to the distribution of rational points near Brownian motion, the authors conjectured the existence of an \emph{oscillation principle} governing the asymptotic behavior of the number of rational points with bounded denomi\-nators near the graph of a monofractal curve. In this note, a weaker form of this conjecture is shown to hold for a broad class of deterministic fractal curves. These include the classical Takagi and Weierstrass nowhere differentiable functions, and indeed a prevalent (i.e.~"large") class of functions among those which are Hölder continuous with a given exponent of regularity. This constitutes the first instance of deterministic fractal curves for which a precise count of the rational points under consideration is established.
ER -