Optimal continued fractions and the moving average ergodic theorem (Q377816)

The purpose of this paper is to study the metrical theory of the optimal continued fraction expansion, introduced in \textit{W. Bosma} [Indag. Math. 49, 353--379 (1987; Zbl 0638.10034)] using the moving average ergodic theorem of \textit{A. Bellow, R. Jones} and \textit{J. Rosenblatt} [Ergodic Theory Dyn.\ Syst. 10, No. 1, 43--62 (1990; Zbl 0674.60035)]. The authors obtain new results on the distribution of the sequence \(\{\psi_n(x)\}_{n\geq 0}\) for almost all \(x\) with respect to Lebesgue measure in the case of the optimal continued fraction expansion, where \(p_n/q_n\) is the \(n\)th convergent of the semi-regular continued fraction expansion of a real number \(x\) and \(\psi_n(x)=q_n^2| x-p_n/q_n| \).