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Geodesic flows and slow downs of continued fraction maps

2023/07/21 by Claire Merriman, Merriman, Claire
Mathematics · #11J70 #11K50 #Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometry and complex manifolds #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #Number Theory (math.NT)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.11700

openalex publication_date 2023/07/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The connection between cutting sequences of geodesics on the modular surface PSL(2,ℤ)\backslashℍ 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\backslashℍ 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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