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Numbers with countable expansions in base of generalized golden ratios

Number Theory 2015-04-08 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Sidorov and Vershik showed that in base G=5+12G=\frac{\sqrt{5}+1}{2} and with the digits 0,10,1 the numbers x=nG (mod1)x=nG ~(\text {mod} 1) have 0\aleph_{0} expansions for any nZn\in\mathbb{Z}, while the other elements of (0,1G1)(0, \frac{1}{G-1}) have 202^{\aleph_{0}} expansions. In this paper, we generalize this result to the generalized golden ratio base β=G(m)\beta=\mathcal{G}(m). With the digit-set {0,1,,m}\{0,1,\cdots, m\}, if m=2k+1m=2k+1, G(m)=k+1+k2+6k+52\mathcal{G}(m)=\frac{k+1+\sqrt{k^{2}+6k+5}}{2}, the numbers x=pβ+q(k+1)n(0,mβ1)x=\frac{p\beta+q}{(k+1)^{n}}\in(0, \frac{m}{\beta-1}) (where n,p,qZn, p, q\in\mathbb{Z}) have 0\aleph_{0} expansions, while the other elements of (0,mβ1)(0, \frac{m}{\beta-1}) have 202^{\aleph_{0}} expansions; if m=2km=2k, G(m)=k+1\mathcal{G}(m)=k+1, the numbers with countably many expansions are p(k+1)n(0,2) (n,pN{0})\frac{p}{(k+1)^{n}}\in(0, 2) ~(n, p\in\mathbb{N}\cup\{0\}). This solves an open question by Baker.

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@article{arxiv.1504.01704,
  title  = {Numbers with countable expansions in base of generalized golden ratios},
  author = {Yuehua Ge and Bo Tan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01704},
  year   = {2015}
}