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A quantitative shrinking target result on Sturmian sequences for rotations

Dynamical Systems 2018-07-06 v2

Abstract

Let RαR_\alpha be an irrational rotation of the circle, and code the orbit of any point xx by whether Rαi(x)R_\alpha^i(x) belongs to [0,α)[0,\alpha) or [α,1)[\alpha,1) -- this produces a Sturmian sequence. A point is undetermined at step jj if its coding up to time jj does not determine its coding at time j+1j+1. We prove a pair of results on the asymptotic frequency of a point being undetermined, for full measure sets of α\alpha and xx.

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@article{arxiv.1802.01370,
  title  = {A quantitative shrinking target result on Sturmian sequences for rotations},
  author = {Jon Chaika and David Constantine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.01370},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages. Updated with minor revisions to match published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1201.0941

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