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Dilated Floor Functions That Commute

Number Theory 2017-01-11 v1 Computational Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We determine all pairs of real numbers (α,β)(\alpha, \beta) such that the dilated floor functions αx\lfloor \alpha x\rfloor and βx\lfloor \beta x\rfloor commute under composition, i.e., such that αβx=βαx\lfloor \alpha \lfloor \beta x\rfloor\rfloor = \lfloor \beta \lfloor \alpha x\rfloor\rfloor holds for all real xx.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1611.05513,
  title  = {Dilated Floor Functions That Commute},
  author = {Jeffrey C. Lagarias and Takumi Murayama and D. Harry Richman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05513},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, to appear in Amer. Math. Monthly

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