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Lyapunov spectrum of Markov and Euclid trees

Dynamical Systems 2020-05-06 v5 Number Theory

Abstract

We study the Lyapunov exponents Λ(x)\Lambda(x) for Markov dynamics as a function of path determined by xRP1x\in \mathbb RP^1 on a binary planar tree, describing the Markov triples and their "tropical" version - Euclid triples. We show that the corresponding Lyapunov spectrum is [0,lnφ][0, \ln \varphi], where φ\varphi is the golden ratio, and prove that on the Markov-Hurwitz set X\mathbb{X} of the most irrational numbers the corresponding function ΛX\Lambda_\mathbb{X} is monotonically increasing and in the Farey parametrization is convex.

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@article{arxiv.1603.08360,
  title  = {Lyapunov spectrum of Markov and Euclid trees},
  author = {K. Spalding and A. P. Veselov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08360},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

A comment on the Hausdorff dimension of the support of $\Lambda(x)$ and reference to Jarnik's work are added