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Martingale differences and the metric theory of continued fractions

Number Theory 2009-07-01 v1 Probability

Abstract

We investigate a collection of orthonormal functions that encodes information about the continued fraction expansion of real numbers. When suitably ordered these functions form a complete system of martingale differences and are a special case of a class of martingale differences considered by R. F. Gundy. By applying known results for martingales we obtain corresponding metric theorems for the continued fraction expansion of almost all real numbers.

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@article{arxiv.0906.5428,
  title  = {Martingale differences and the metric theory of continued fractions},
  author = {Alan K. Haynes and Jeffrey D. Vaaler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.5428},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 2009