Non-uniform expansions of real numbers (Q2023326)

This research is devoted to a certain numeral system given by two non-integer bases. Let \(\Sigma=\{0,1\}^{\mathbb{N}}\) be the set of sequences of zeros and ones. Let \(\beta_{0},\beta_{1}\in (\frac 1 2,1)\) be fixed numbers such that \(\beta_{0}\ge \beta_{1}\). For \(s=(s_{i})\in\Sigma\) and \(n\in\mathbb{N}\), let \(0_{n}(s)\) be the number of zeros and \(1_{n}(s)\) be the number of ones in the sequence \((s_{1},\dots,s_{n})\). In the present papper, the following expansion of real numbers from \(I=I_{\beta_{1}}=[0,\beta_{1}/(1-\beta_{1})]\) is introduced: \[ \sum_{i=1}^{\infty}s_{i}\beta_{0}^{0_{i}(s)}\beta_{1}^{1_{i}(s)}=\pi_{\beta_{0},\beta_{1}}(s)=x. \] The author calls a sequence \(s\in\Sigma\) with \(\pi_{\beta_{0},\beta_{1}}(s)=x\) as {\textit{a \((\beta_0, \beta_1)\)-expansion of \(x\in I\)}}. The following questions are considered in this investigation: -- the existence of \((\beta_0, \beta_1)\)-expansions and two descriptions of such expansions of real numbers; -- algorithms which determine one \((\beta_0, \beta_1)\)-expansion of \(x\in I\); -- the existence of a continuum of \((\beta_0, \beta_1)\)-expansions of real numbers; -- real numbers which have the unique \((\beta_0, \beta_1)\)-expansion and a theorem on the cardinality of the set of such numbers.