Structure of attractors for (a,b)-continued fraction transformations

DOI10.3934/JMD.2010.4.637MaRDI QIDQ630029zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Svetlana Katok, Ilie Ugarcovici

Publication date 10 March 2011

Published in Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4200

zbMATH Keywords

attractorcontinued fractionsinvariant measurenatural extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Metric theory of continued fractions (11K50) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05)

Abstract: We study a two-parameter family of one-dimensional maps and related (a,b)-continued fractions suggested for consideration by Don Zagier. We prove that the associated natural extension maps have attractors with finite rectangular structure for the entire parameter set except for a Cantor-like set of one-dimensional Lebesgue zero measure that we completely describe. We show that the structure of these attractors can be "computed" from the data (a,b), and that for a dense open set of parameters the Reduction theory conjecture holds, i.e. every point is mapped to the attractor after finitely many iterations. We also show how this theory can be applied to the study of invariant measures and ergodic properties of the associated Gauss-like maps.

Review text

This paper studies a particular two-parameter family of one-dimensional maps \(f_{a,b}\) over a certain parameter space \(\mathcal{P} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2\). The authors state that, based on numerical experiments, D. Zagier conjectured that the natural extension map \(F_{a,b}\) of \(f_{a,b}\) satisfies the Reduction Theory Conjecture for all of \(\mathcal{P}\). The authors' main result is that the natural extension maps have attractors with finite rectangular structure for all of \(\mathcal{P}\) except for a one-dimensional set of zero Lebesgue measure and that for an open dense subset of \(\mathcal{P}\) every point enters the attractor after a finite number of iterations of \(F_{a,b}\). Furthermore, they explain how their results apply to the study of invariant measures and ergodic properties of the associated Gauss-like maps. Some of the results in this paper were announced previously by the authors [Electron. Res. Announc. Math. Sci. 17, 20--33 (2010; Zbl 1193.37040)].

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