A dynamical system linked to the sequence of prime numbers

DOI10.1016/S0764-4442(01)02099-7MaRDI QIDQ2767614zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alain Costé

Publication date 23 October 2002

Published in Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Série I. Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0764-4442(01)02099-7

zbMATH Keywords

\(\sigma\)-affine fibered systemergodicityMarkov mappiecewise-linear mapprime numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primes (11A41) Low-dimensional dynamical systems (37E99)

Review text

A piecewise-linear map is defined on \((0,1]\) by setting \(\phi(x)=px-1\) when \(x\in(1/p,1/q]\) for consecutive prime numbers \(p,q\). This map is studied as an example of a \(\sigma\)-affine fibered system in the sense of \textit{F. Schweiger} [Ergodic theory of fibred systems and metric number theory. Oxford, Clarendon Press (1995; Zbl 0819.11027)]. Ergodicity of an associated Markov chain is not proved, but numerical evidence is given to support its conjectured ergodicity.

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