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Synchronization is full measure for all $\alpha$-deformations of an infinite class of continued fraction transformations

Dynamical Systems 2017-01-18 v1

Abstract

We study an infinite family of one-parameter deformations, so-called α\alpha-continued fractions, of interval maps associated to distinct triangle Fuchsian groups. In general for such one-parameter deformations, the function giving the entropy of the map indexed by α\alpha varies in a way directly related to whether or not the orbits of the endpoints of the map synchronize. For two cases of one-parameter deformations associated to the classical case of the modular group PSL2(Z)\text{PSL}_2(\mathbb Z), the set of α\alpha for which synchronization occurs has been determined. Here, we explicitly determine the synchronization sets for each α\alpha-deformation in our infinite family. (In general, our Fuchsian groups are not subgroups of the modular group, and hence the tool of relating α\alpha-expansions back to regular continued fraction expansions is not available to us.) A curiosity here is that all of our synchronization sets can be described in terms of a single tree of words. In a paper in preparation, we identify the natural extensions of our maps, as well as the entropy functions associated to each deformation.

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@article{arxiv.1701.04498,
  title  = {Synchronization is full measure for all $\alpha$-deformations of an infinite class of continued fraction transformations},
  author = {Kariane Calta and Cor Kraaikamp and Thomas A. Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04498},
  year   = {2017}
}

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45 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables