Diophantine approximation of the orbit of 1 in the dynamical system of beta expansions

Abstract: We consider the distribution of the orbits of the number 1 under the

-transformations

as

varies. Mainly, the size of the set of

for which a given point can be well approximated by the orbit of 1 is measured by its Hausdorff dimension. That is, the dimension of the following set

E�ig({ell_n}_{nge 1}, x_0�ig)=Big{�eta>1: |T^n_{�eta}1-x_0|<�eta^{-ell_n}, {for infinitely many} nin NBig}

is determined, where

x_{0}

is a given point in

[0, 1]

and

{e l l_{n}}_{n g e 1}

is a sequence of integers tending to infinity as

n o i n f t y

. For the proof of this result, the notion of the recurrence time of a word in symbolic space is introduced to characterize the lengths and the distribution of cylinders (the set of

with a common prefix in the expansion of 1) in the parameter space

.

Review text

For a number \(\beta > 1\), the so-called \(\beta\)-expansion of real numbers was introduced by \textit{A. Rényi} [Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hung. 8, 477--493 (1957; Zbl 0079.08901)] and \textit{W. Parry} [Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hung. 11, 401--416 (1960; Zbl 0099.28103)]. Underlying the \(\beta\)-expansion is the \(\beta\)-transformation, \(T_\beta(x) = \beta x - \lfloor \beta x \rfloor\), defined for \(x \in (0,1)\) and extended to \([0,1)\) by letting \(T_\beta(0) = 0\). As usual, \(\lfloor x\rfloor\) denotes the integer part of the real number \(x\). The authors consider the set of numbers \(\beta > 1\) such that for a given sequence of integers \(\{l_n\}\) tending to infinity with \(n\), the inequality \[ | T_\beta^n (1) - x_0 | < \beta^{-l_n} \] is satisfied for infinitely many \(\beta\). Here, \(x_0 \in [0,1]\) is fixed, but the authors also consider the more general setting, where \(x_0\) is replaced by \(x(\beta)\), a Lipschitz continuous function. In either case, the set of such \(\beta\)'s is shown to have Hausdorff dimension \(1/(1+\alpha)\), where \(\alpha = \liminf_{n \rightarrow \infty} l_n/n\). The proof depends heavily on the combinatorics of the admissible words in the associated \(\beta\)-shift.

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