Dilatations and continued fractions (Q1195346)
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Dilatations and continued fractions (English)
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26 October 1992
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A matrix is called a primitive irreducible matrix (or in the author's terms a Perron-Frobenius matrix) if it is entrywise nonnegative and some power is entrywise positive. The author's principal result shows how to express the spectral radius and corresponding (normalized) eigenvector of a class of primitive irreducible integer matrices as generalized continued fractions. This result is applied to a problem in topology involving pseudo-Anosov maps of hyperbolic surfaces.
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dilatations
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primitive irreducible matrix
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Perron-Frobenius matrix
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spectral radius
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integer matrices
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generalized continued fractions
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pseudo-Anosov maps
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hyperbolic surfaces
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