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A dichotomy between uniform distributions of the Stern-Brocot and the Farey sequence

Number Theory 2014-06-16 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We employ infinite ergodic theory to show that the even Stern-Brocot sequence and the Farey sequence are uniformly distributed mod 1 with respect to certain canonical weightings. As a corollary we derive the precise asymptotic for the Lebesgue measure of continued fraction sum-level sets as well as connections to asymptotic behaviours of geometrically and arithmetically restricted Poincar\'e series. Moreover, we give relations of our main results to elementary observations for the Stern-Brocot tree.

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@article{arxiv.1009.1823,
  title  = {A dichotomy between uniform distributions of the Stern-Brocot and the Farey sequence},
  author = {Marc Kesseböhmer and Bernd O. Stratmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.1823},
  year   = {2014}
}

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9 pages