Limiting curlicue measures for theta sums (Q537134): Difference between revisions

The author studies the curves generated by theta sums, that is, curves which are piecewise linear, of length \(\sqrt{N}\) (being made of \(N\) segments of length \(N^{-1/2}\)). As illustrated in Figure 1 in the article, these curves exhibit a geometric multiscale structure, including spiral-like fragments: the curlicues. For a discussion on the geometry (and more general curves defined using exponential sums) see [\textit{F. M. Dekking} and \textit{M. Mendès France}, J. Reine Angew. Math. 329, 143--153 (1981; Zbl 0459.10025)]. The curlicue measure is introduced by the main Theorem 1.1. The paper is well written and provides an interesting renormalization procedure by using the digit-algorithm of the continued fraction expansion of a number \(\alpha\in (0,1]\) with even partial quotients and a renewal-type limit theorem for the denominators of such continued fraction expansions.