Special Session 5: Scientific Computation and Numerical Algorithms

On some measure-preserving transformations in ergodic theory of numbers

Florin P Boca
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USA
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Abstract:
Rationals in [0,1] can be filtered in two natural ways: by sum of digits (Stern-Brocot) or by size of denominators (Farey sequences), each one leading to measure-preserving transformations with very different ergodic behavior. This talk will discuss Minkowski question mark functions associated with even and odd continued fractions, Gauss type maps for even, odd and \alpha-odd continued fraction expansions, and the so-called BCZ map.