Conical limit sets and continued fractions

Continued fractions; complex-analytic aspects (30B70) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Convergence and divergence of continued fractions (40A15) Möbius geometries (51B10)

Abstract: Inspired by questions of convergence in continued fraction theory, ErdH{o}s, Piranian and Thron studied the possible sets of divergence for arbitrary sequences of M"obius maps acting on the Riemann sphere,

S^{2}

. By identifying

S^{2}

with the boundary of three-dimensional hyperbolic space,

H^{3}

, we show that these sets of divergence are precisely the sets that arise as conical limit sets of subsets of

H^{3}

. Using hyperbolic geometry, we give simple geometric proofs of the theorems of ErdH{o}s, Piranian and Thron that generalise to arbitrary dimensions. New results are also obtained about the class of conical limit sets, for example, that it is closed under locally quasisymmetric homeomorphisms. Applications are given to continued fractions.

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