Hölder differentiability of self-conformal devil's staircases

Abstract: In this paper we consider the probability distribution function of a Gibbs measure supported on a self-conformal set given by an iterated function system (devil's staircase). We use thermodynamic multifractal formalism to calculate the Hausdorff dimension of the sets $S^{\alpha}_{0}$, $S^{\alpha}_{\infty}$ and $S^{\alpha}$, the set of points at which this function has, respectively, H\"older derivative 0, $\infty$ or no derivative in the general sense. This extends recent work by Darst, Dekking, Falconer, Kesseb\"ohmer and Stratmann and Yao, Zhang and Li.