Critical circle maps near bifurcation (Q1918061)

The article gives estimates of the harmonic scalings in the parameter space of a one-parameter family of critical circle maps. The two main theorems which are proved state that the rotation number as a function of the parameter of the family of circle maps is Hölder continuous and that the Hausdorff dimension of the complement of the frequency-locking set is less than 1 but not less than \(1/3\). The paper also studies the harmonic scalings in parameter space. Upper and lower universal bounded geometry estimates are proved.