Irrational numbers of constant type -- a new characterization

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Authors Manash Mukherjee, Gunther Karner

Publication date 21 April 1998

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9706009, https://eudml.org/doc/119519, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/1998/4-3.html

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zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionsirrational numberspartition of the unit intervalthree distance theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Metric theory of continued fractions (11K50)

Abstract: We obtain a new characterization for irrational numbers of constant type -- defined as irrationals with bounded partial quotients in their continued fraction expansion. The result is essential in the formulation of stability criteria for orbits of quantum twist maps in a class of dynamical systems.

Review text

Given an irrational number \(\alpha\) and a positive integer \(m\), the distinct fractional parts of \(\alpha, 2\alpha, \dots,\) \(m\alpha\) determine a partition of the interval [0,1]. There are at most three kinds of lengths by the Three Distance Theorem. Defining \(d_\alpha(m)\) and \(d' _\alpha(m)\) to be the maximum and minimum lengths, respectively, of the subintervals of the partition corresponding to the integer \(m\), it is shown that the sequence \((d_\alpha(m)/ d'_\alpha(m))_{m=1}^\infty\) is bounded if and only if \(\alpha\) is of constant type; namely, the continued fraction expansion of \(\alpha\) has bounded partial quotients.

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