Hausdorff dimension of the set of nonergodic directions (with an Appendix by M. Boshernitzan)

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2003.158.661zbMATH Open1037.37018arXivmath/0404433OpenAlexW1996406379MaRDI QIDQ1423905FDOQ1423905

Authors: Yitwah Cheung 

Publication date: 7 March 2004

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that nonergodic directions in a rational billiard form a subset of the unit circle with Hausdorff dimension at most 1/2. Explicit examples realizing the dimension 1/2 are constructed using Diophantine numbers and continued fractions. A lower estimate on the number of primitive lattice points in certain subsets of the plane is used in the construction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404433

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zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionsarea-preserving flowDiophantine numbersrational billiards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Metric theory of other algorithms and expansions; measure and Hausdorff dimension (11K55) Fractals (28A80) Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

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