Sums with Stern-Brocot sequences and the Minkowski question-mark function

DOI10.1007/S11139-025-01261-WMaRDI QIDQ6876561zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Haomin Liu, Jiadong Lü, Yonghao Xie

Publication date 13 January 2026

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11139-025-01261-W

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier-Stieltjes coefficientsMinkowski question-mark functionStern-Brocot sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Farey sequences; the sequences (1^k, 2^k, dots) (11B57) Special sequences (11K31) Singular functions, Cantor functions, functions with other special properties (26A30) Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series (42A16)

Review text

The Stern-Brocot sequences \((F_n)\) (defined using an infinite complete binary tree whose vertices correspond to the positive rational numbers with values ordered left to the right as in a binary search tree may be used to define the so-called Minkowski `question mark' function \(?\), known to be continuous, strictly increasing, singular and known to satisfy the functional equations \(?(1-x)=1-?(x)\) and \(?\bigl(\frac{x}{1+x}\bigr)=\frac{?(x)}{2}\). Here an analogue of \textit{J. Franel}'s theorem [Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, Math.-Phys. Kl. 1924, 198--201 (1924; JFM 50.0119.01)] on the distribution of the Farey numbers is shown for \(?\) and the Stern-Brocot sequences is shown, and further results include an analysis of the Fourier-Stieltjes coefficients of the inverse of \(?\).

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