THE HAUSDORFF DIMENSION OF GRAPHS OF WEIERSTRASS FUNCTIONS

The Weierstrass nowhere differentiable function, and functions constru cted from similar infinite series, have been studied often as examples of functions whose graph is a fractal. Though there is a simple formu la for the Hausdorff dimension of the graph which is widely accepted, it has not been rigorously proved to hold. We prove that if arbitrary phases are included in each term of the summation for the Weierstrass function, the Hausdorff dimension of the graph of the function has the conjectured value for almost every sequence of phases. The argument e xtends to a much-wider class of Weierstrass-like functions.