The distribution of rational numbers on Cantor's middle thirds set

DOI10.2478/UDT-2020-0011MaRDI QIDQ2129353zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander D. Rahm, Noam Solomon, Tara Trauthwein, Barak Weiss

Publication date 22 April 2022

Published in Uniform distribution theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01198

zbMATH Keywords

fractalprobabilistic modelrational numbers in the Cantor set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric theory (11J83) Diophantine approximation in probabilistic number theory (11K60)

Abstract: We give a heuristic for the number of reduced rationals on Cantor's middle thirds set, with a fixed bound on the denominator. We also describe extensive numerical computations supporting this heuristic.

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