English

A devil's staircase from rotations and irrationality measures for Liouville numbers

Number Theory 2009-11-13 v1 Combinatorics Dynamical Systems

Abstract

From Sturmian and Christoffel words we derive a strictly increasing function Δ:[0,)R\Delta:[0,\infty)\to\mathbb{R}. This function is continuous at every irrational point, while at rational points, left-continuous but not right-continuous. Moreover, it assumes algebraic integers at rationals, and transcendental numbers at irrationals. We also see that the differentiation of Δ\Delta distinguishes some irrationality measures of real numbers.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0709.1642,
  title  = {A devil's staircase from rotations and irrationality measures for Liouville numbers},
  author = {Doyong Kwon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1642},
  year   = {2009}
}

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This version was updated. The older one is available at http://math.yonsei.ac.kr/doyong

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