A Poincar\'e map for the horocycle flow on PSL(2,\mathbb{Z})\backslash \mathbb{H} and the Stern-Brocot tree

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Authors Claudio Bonanno, Alessio Del Vigna, S. Isola

Publication date 8 July 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonsingular (and infinite-measure preserving) transformations (37A40) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: We construct a Poincar'e map $mathcal{P}_h$ for the positive horocycle flow on the modular surface $$, and begin a systematic study of its dynamical properties. In particular we give a complete characterisation of the periodic orbits of $mathcal{P}_h$, and show that they are equidistributed with respect to the invariant measure of $mathcal{P}_h$ and that they can be organised in a tree by using the Stern-Brocot tree of rational numbers. In addition we introduce a time-reparameterisation of $mathcal{P}_h$ which gives an insight into the dynamics of the non-periodic orbits. This paper constitutes a first step in the study of the dynamical properties of the horocycle flow by purely dynamical methods.

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