Pairs of Matrices in <em>GL</em>₂(R_≥0) That Freely Generate

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.122.8.790MaRDI QIDQ3460018zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Melvyn B. Nathanson

Publication date 11 January 2016

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1194

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05)

Abstract: An elementary proof that certain pairs of $2imes2$ matrices with nonnegative real coordinates generate free monoids.

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• Non-Free Points for Groups Generated by a Pair of 2×2 Matrices
• Forests of complex numbers
• Subgroups of 𝑆𝐿₂(ℤ) characterized by certain continued fraction representations
• Left-right pairs and complex forests of infinite rooted binary trees
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7498432 (Why is no real title available?)
• Free monoids and forests of rational numbers
• Remark on the Farey fraction spin chain
• Disjoint pairs for \(\text{GL}_n (\mathbb R)\) and \(\text{GL}_n (\mathbb C)\)
• Orphans in forests of linear fractional transformations

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