On small bases for which 1 has countably many expansions

Abstract: Let

q i n (1, 2)

. A

q

-expansion of a number

x

in

[0, f r a c 1 q - 1]

is a sequence

(d e l t a_{i})_{i = 1}^{i} n f t y i n {0, 1}^{m a t h b b N}

satisfying

x=sum_{i=1}^inftyfrac{delta_i}{q^i}.

Let

m a t h c a l B_{a l e p h_{0}}

denote the set of

q

for which there exists

x

with a countable number of

q

-expansions, and let

m a t h c a l B_{1, a l e p h_{0}}

denote the set of

q

for which

1

has a countable number of

q

-expansions. In cite{Sidorov6} it was shown that

m i n m a t h c a l B_{a l e p h_{0}} = m i n m a t h c a l B_{1, a l e p h_{0}} = f r a c 1 + s q r t 5 2,

and in cite{Baker} it was shown that

m a t h c a l B_{a l e p h_{0}} c a p (f r a c 1 + s q r t 5 2, q_{1}] = q_{1}

, where

q_{1} (a p p r o x 1.64541)

is the positive root of

x^{6} - x^{4} - x^{3} - 2 x^{2} - x - 1 = 0

. In this paper we show that the second smallest point of

m a t h c a l B_{1, a l e p h_{0}}

is

q_{3} (a p p r o x 1.68042)

, the positive root of

x^{5} - x^{4} - x^{3} - x + 1 = 0

. Enroute to proving this result we show that

m a t h c a l B_{a l e p h_{0}} c a p (q_{1}, q_{3}] = q_{2}, q_{3}

, where

q_{2} (a p p r o x 1.65462)

is the positive root of

x^{6} - 2 x^{4} - x^{3} - 1 = 0

.

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