Hermitian continued fractions and hyperbolic billards

DOI10.5802/JTNB.215MaRDI QIDQ1273174zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierrick Meignen

Publication date 23 June 1999

Published in Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.numdam.org/item?id=JTNB_1998__10_1_1_0, https://eudml.org/doc/222944, http://www.emis.de/journals/JTNB/jtnb1998-1.html

zbMATH Keywords

billiardsergodic theoryfundamental invariantsHermite continued fractions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric theory of continued fractions (11K50)

Review text

The author applies use of geodesic flow on the modular surface to deduce ergodicity and to compute some of the fundamental invariants for the Hermite continued fractions. The techniques, very nicely applied here, are those going back at least to \textit{R. Moeckel} [Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 2, 69-83 (1982; Zbl 0497.10007)]. It is interesting, as the author points out, that G. Humbert in 1916 had already given a geometric version of this continued fraction algorithm.

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