Determination of periods of geometric continued fractions for two-dimensional algebraic hyperbolic operators

DOI10.1134/S0001434610070035MaRDI QIDQ650250zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oleg Karpenkov

Publication date 25 November 2011

Published in Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1604

zbMATH Keywords

geometric continued fractionhyperbolic integer operatorperiod of a geometric continued fractionsail of an integer operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70)

Abstract: For a given sequence of positive integers we make an explicit construction of a reduced hyperbolic operator in SL(2,z) with the sequence as a period of a geometric continued fraction in the sense of Klein. Further we experimentally study an algorithm to construct a period for an arbitrary operator of SL(2,z) (the Gauss Reduction Theory).

Review text

The author starts with a short overview of geometric theory of continued fractions in the sense of Klein. The rest of the paper is devoted to periodic geometric continued fractions which correspond to hyperbolic operators \(A\in \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\) (an operator \(A\) is called hyperbolic if all its eigenvalues are real and distinct). The author presents a simple algorithm (similar to usual basis reduction algorithm) which calculates a reduced form of given hyperbolic operator \(A\in \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\) (an equivalent matrix \(\left({a\,c}\atop{b\,d}\right)\) such that \(d>b\geq a>0\)). This algorithm solves two problems: 1. It gives an explicit construction of a reduced hyperbolic integer operator from the group \( \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\) such that one of the periods of the corresponding geometric continued fraction in the sense of Klein coincides with a given sequence of positive integers. 2. It determines the periods for any operator \(A\in \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\).

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