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This thesis consists of three papers, all of them on the topic of function spaces on fractals.

The papers summarised in this thesis are:

Paper I Mats Bodin, Wavelets and function spaces on Mauldin-Williams fractals, Research Report in Mathematics No. 7, Umeå University, 2005.

Paper II Mats Bodin, Harmonic functions and Lipschitz spaces on the Sierpinski gasket, Research Report in Mathematics No. 8, Umeå University, 2005.

Paper III Mats Bodin, A discrete characterisation of Lipschitz spaces on fractals, Manuscript.

The first paper deals with piecewise continuous wavelets of higher order in Besov spaces defined on fractals. A. Jonsson has constructed wavelets of higher order on fractals, and characterises Besov spaces on totally disconnected self-similar sets, by means of the magnitude of the coefficients in the wavelet expansion of the function. For a class of fractals, W. Jin shows that such wavelets can be constructed by recursively calculating moments. We extend their results to a class of graph directed self-similar fractals, introduced by R. D. Mauldin and S. C. Williams.

In the second paper we compare differently defined function spaces on the Sierpinski gasket. R. S. Strichartz proposes a discrete definition of Besov spaces of continuous functions on self-similar fractals having a regular harmonic structure. We identify some of them with Lipschitz spaces introduced by A. Jonsson, when the underlying domain is the Sierpinski gasket. We also characterise some of these spaces by means of the magnitude of the coefficients of the expansion of a function in a continuous piecewise harmonic base.

The last paper gives a discrete characterisation of certain Lipschitz spaces on a class of fractal sets. A. Kamont has discretely characterised Besov spaces on intervals. We give a discrete characterisation of Lipschitz spaces on fractals admitting a type of regular sequence of triangulations, and for a class of post critically finite self-similar sets. This shows that, on some fractals, certain discretely defined Besov spaces, introduced by R. Strichartz, coincide with Lipschitz spaces introduced by A. Jonsson and H. Wallin for low order of smoothness.