On a Gauss-Kuzmin-Type Problem for a Family of Continued Fraction Expansions

Dan Lascu

Published 2011-08-17, updated 2013-04-01Version 3

In this paper we study in detail a family of continued fraction expansions of any number in the unit closed interval $[0,1]$ whose digits are differences of consecutive non-positive integer powers of an integer $m \geq 2$. For the transformation which generates this expansion and its invariant measure, the Perron-Frobenius operator is given and studied. For this expansion, we apply the method of random systems with complete connections by Iosifescu and obtained the solution of its Gauss-Kuzmin type problem.