Fractional Generalized Random Fields of Variable Order.

We study the class of random fields having their reproducing kernel Hilbert space isomorphic to a fractional Sobolev space of variable order on Rn. Prototypes of this class include multifractional Brownian motion, multifractional free Markov fields, and multifractional Riesz-Bessel motion. The study is carried out using the theory of generalized random fields defined on fractional Sobolev spaces of variable order. Specifically, we consider the class of generalized random fields satisfying a pseudoduality condition of variable order. The factorization of the covariance operator of the pseudodual allows the definition of a white-noise linear filter representation of variable order. In the ordinary case, the Holder continuity, in the mean-square sense, of the class of random fields introduced is proved, and its mean-square Holder spectrum is defined in terms of the variable regularity order of the functions in the associated reproducing kernel Hilbert space. The pseudodifferential representation of variable order of the resulting class of multifractal random fields is also defined. Some examples of pseudodifferential models of variable order are then given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]