Classification of Denjoy continua

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(99)00070-XMaRDI QIDQ1578888zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Marcy Barge, R. F. Williams

Publication date 28 April 2002

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-8641(99)00070-X

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionsDenjoy continuaFarey arraygeometric bifurcationsuspension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continua theory in dynamics (37B45) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Continua and generalizations (54F15)

Review text

In this interesting paper, the authors reprove \textit{R. Fokkink}'s theorem [The structure of trajectories, Thesis, TU Delft (1991)]: Let \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) be two irrationals with associated Denjoy continua \(\mathbb{D}_\alpha\) and \(\mathbb{D}_\beta\). Then \(\mathbb{D}_\alpha\) and \(\mathbb{D}_\beta\) are homeomorphic iff \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are equivalent. Two irrationals are equivalent if they are in the same orbit of the group action of the group \(SL(2,\mathbb{Z})\) on the irrationals, when the group \(SL(2,\mathbb{Z})\) acts on irrationals by \(\left(\begin{smallmatrix} a & b\\ c & d\end{smallmatrix} \right)\alpha = {a+ b\alpha \over c+d\alpha}\). The authors' approach emphasizes the connection between the topology of a Denjoy continuum and the geometry of the continued fraction expansion of its slope. A novel approach to continued fractions is developed via geometric bifurcation theory.

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