Multifractal analysis of Lyapunov exponent for continued fraction and Manneville-Pomeau transformations and applications to diophantine approximation (Q1969240)

This paper deals with the multifractal analysis which is useful in studying problems in Diophantine approximation, in studying the behaviour of geodesics on the modular surface, and in studying an important nonuniformly hyperbolic dynamical system. To this end the authors consider both fraction (Gauss) transformation \(T_1: [0,1]\to [0,1]\) defined by (1) \(T_1x= \frac 1x- [\frac 1x]= \{\frac 1x\}\), \(x\neq 0\) and \(T_1(0)= 0\) and the Manneville-Pomeau transformation (MP) defined by (2) \(T_2: [0,1]\to [0,1]\), \(T_2x= x+ x^{1+\alpha}\pmod 1\), where \(\alpha\geq 0\). A key aspect of the authors' analysis is a reduction of this system to a countable state uniformly hyperbolic system. In particular, they show that the Lyapunov exponent attains an interval of values, realized on dense sets with positive Hausdorff dimension. The analysis of the authors also provides new quantitative information about cuspidal expansions on the modular surface.