A review of univariate and multivariate multifractal analysis illustrated by the analysis of marathon runners physiological data

We review the central results concerning wavelet methods in multifractal analysis, which consists in analysis of the pointwise singularities of a signal, and we describe its recent extension to multivariate multifractal analysis, which deals with the joint analysis of several signals; we focus on the mathematical questions that this new techniques motivate. We illustrate these methods by an application to data recorded on marathon runners.

Multifractal analysis of physiological data from marathon runners

We propose an analysis of heart rate marathon runners implemented by computing a multifractal spectrum based on p-exponents. We draw physiological conclusions about their performance. Finally, we link this analysis with the disturbances of the heart rate autoregulation during the marathon, which had been put in evidence up to now only by scales of feeling of marathon runners during the race.