Derivatives of the restrictions of harmonic functions on the Sierpinski gasket to segments

We give an explicit derivative computation for the restriction of a harmonic function on SG to segments at specific points of the segments: The derivative is zero at points dividing the segment in ratio 1:3. This shows that the restriction of a harmonic function to a segment of SG has the following curious property: The restriction has infinite derivatives on a dense subset of the segment (at junction points) and vanishing derivatives on another dense subset. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved