On a problem of countable expansions

Publication date 9 September 2015

Abstract: For a real number

q i n (1, 2)

and

x i n [0, 1 / (q - 1)]

, the infinite sequence

(d_{i})

is called a emph{

q

-expansion} of

x

if

x=sum_{i=1}^inftyfrac{d_i}{q^i},quad d_iin{0,1}quad extrm{for all}~ ige 1.

For

m = 1, 2, c d o t s

or

a l e p h_{0}

we denote by

m a t h c a l B_{m}

the set of

q i n (1, 2)

such that there exists

x i n [0, 1 / (q - 1)]

having exactly

m

different

q

-expansions. It was shown by Sidorov (2009) that

q_{2} := m i n m a t h c a l B_{2} a p p r o x 1.71064

, and later asked by Baker (2015) whether

q_{2} i n m a t h c a l B_{a l e p h_{0}}

? In this paper we provide a negative answer to this question and conclude that

m a t h c a l B_{a l e p h_{0}}

is not a closed set. In particular, we give a complete description of

x i n [0, 1 / (q_{2} - 1)]

having exactly two different

q_{2}

-expansions.

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