On the bifurcation set of unique expansions

Abstract: Given a positive integer

M

, for

q i n (1, M + 1]

let

{m a t h c a l U}_{q}

be the set of

x i n [0, M / (q - 1)]

having a unique

q

-expansion with the digit set

0, 1, l d o t s, M

, and let

m a t h b f U_{q}

be the set of corresponding

q

-expansions. Recently, Komornik et al.~(Adv. Math., 2017) showed that the topological entropy function

H : q m a p s t o h_{t o p} (m a t h b f U_{q})

is a Devil's staircase in

(1, M + 1]

. Let

m a t h c a l B

be the bifurcation set of

H

defined by [ mathcal{B}={qin(1, M+1]: H(p)

e H(q)quad extrm{for any}quad p

e q}. ] In this paper we analyze the fractal properties of

m a t h c a l B

, and show that for any

q i n m a t h c a l B

, [ lim_{delta ightarrow 0} dim_H(mathcal{B}cap(q-delta, q+delta))=dim_Hmathcal{U}_q, ] where

d i m_{H}

denotes the Hausdorff dimension. Moreover, when

q i n m a t h c a l B

the univoque set

m a t h c a l U_{q}

is dimensionally homogeneous, i.e.,

d i m_{H} (m a t h c a l U_{q} c a p V) = d i m_{H} m a t h c a l U_{q}

for any open set

V

that intersect

m a t h c a l U_{q}

. As an application we obtain a dimensional spectrum result for the set

m a t h c a l U

containing all bases

q i n (1, M + 1]

such that

1

admits a unique

q

-expansion. In particular, we prove that for any

t > 1

we have [ dim_H(mathcal{U}cap(1, t])=max_{ qle t}dim_Hmathcal{U}_q. ] We also consider the variations of the sets

m a t h c a l U = m a t h c a l U (M)

when

M

changes.

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