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This book is motivated by the fascinating interrelations between ergodic theory and number theory (as established since the 1950s). It examines several generalizations and extensions of classical continued fractions, including generalized Lehner, simple, and Hirzebruch-Jung continued fractions.
List of contents
1. Generalized Lehner Continued Fractions. 2. a-modified Farey Series. 3. Ergodic Aspects of the Generalized Lehner Continued Fractions. 4. The a-simple Continued Fraction. 5. The Generalized Khintchine Constant. 6. The Entropy of the System ([0; 1]; ß; μa; Ta). 7. The Natural Extension of ([0; 1]; ß; μa; Ta). 8. The Dynamical System ([0; 1]; ß; va;Qa). 9. Generalized Hirzebruch-Jung Continued Fractions. 10. The Entropy of ([0; 1]; ß; νa;Ha). 11. The Natural Extension of ([0; 1]; ß; νa;Ha). 12. A New Generalization of the Farey Series.
About the author
Juan Fernández Sánchez earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Almería (Spain) in 2010. His research interests are in dependence modeling and copulas, dynamical systems, singular functions, and number theory.
Jerónimo López-Salazar Codes completed his doctoral work under the supervision of Professors José María Martínez Ansemil and Socorro Ponte at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2013. He currently works at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). His research is mainly devoted to infinite dimensional holomorphy and lineability.
Juan B. Seoane Sepúlveda earned his first Ph.D. at the Universidad de Cádiz (Spain) jointly with Universität Karlsruhe (Germany) in 2005. His received his second Ph.D. at Kent State University (Kent, Ohio, USA) in 2006. His main interests include Real and Complex Analysis, Operator Theory, Number Theory, Mathematical Modeling, Mathematical Biology, Geometry of Banach spaces, History of Mathematics, and Lineability. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications, including several books. He is currently a professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he also holds the position of director of the Master’s in Advanced Mathematics.
Wolfgang Trutschnig obtained his Ph.D. at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 2006. He is currently the professor for stochastics and director of the IDA Lab at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS) and mainly works in dependence modeling and nonparametric statistics with regular excursions to dynamical systems, fractals and ergodic theory.
Summary
This book is motivated by the fascinating interrelations between ergodic theory and number theory (as established since the 1950s). It examines several generalizations and extensions of classical continued fractions, including generalized Lehner, simple, and Hirzebruch-Jung continued fractions.
