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 . 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 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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