English

Geodesic flows and slow downs of continued fraction maps

Dynamical Systems 2023-10-31 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

The connection between cutting sequences of geodesics on the modular surface PSL(2,Z)\H\operatorname{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\backslash\mathbb{H} and regular continued fractions was established by Series, and Heersink expanded the cross-section of the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle to the modular surface to describe the Farey tent-map as a slowdown of the Gauss map for the regular continued fractions. Boca and the author expanded the connection between cutting sequences of geodesics on the modular surface Θ\H\Theta\backslash\mathbb{H} and even continued fractions, which was previously established as a billiard flow by Bauer and Lopes. We will similarly expand the cross-section of the geodesic flow on this unit tangent bundle to describe the three-branch slowdown of the even Farey map.

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@article{arxiv.2307.11700,
  title  = {Geodesic flows and slow downs of continued fraction maps},
  author = {Claire Merriman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11700},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

16 pages, 8 figures

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