The dynamics of Super-Apollonian continued fractions

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7372MaRDI QIDQ5227952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sneha Chaubey, Elena Fuchs, Robert Hines, Katherine E. Stange

Publication date 7 August 2019

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08616

zbMATH Keywords

Apollonian circle packingBianchi groupcontinued fractionsDescartes quadrupledynamical systemergodic theorygeodesic flowhyperbolic isometryinvariant measureinvertible extensionLorentz quadrupleMöbius transformationorthogonal groupprojective linear groupPythagorean triplequadratic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) General ternary and quaternary quadratic forms; forms of more than two variables (11E20) Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44) Quasiconformal methods in holomorphic dynamics; quasiconformal dynamics (37F31) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

Abstract: We examine a pair of dynamical systems on the plane induced by a pair of spanning trees in the Cayley graph of the Super-Apollonian group of Graham, Lagarias, Mallows, Wilks and Yan. The dynamical systems compute Gaussian rational approximations to complex numbers and are "reflective" versions of the complex continued fractions of A. L. Schmidt. They also describe a reduction algorithm for Lorentz quadruples, in analogy to work of Romik on Pythagorean triples. For these dynamical systems, we produce an invertible extension and an invariant measure, which we conjecture is ergodic. We consider some statistics of the related continued fraction expansions, and we also examine the restriction of these systems to the real line, which gives a reflective version of the usual continued fraction algorithm. Finally, we briefly consider an alternate setup corresponding to a tree of Lorentz quadruples ordered by arithmetic complexity.

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