{ "id": "2001.06073", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-01-16T21:26:00.000Z", "updated": "2020-01-16T21:26:00.000Z", "title": "Geodesic flows and the mother of all continued fractions", "authors": [ "Claire Merriman" ], "comment": "12 pages, 4 figures", "categories": [ "math.DS", "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We extend the Series' connection between the modular surface $\\mathcal{M}=\\operatorname{PSL}(2,\\mathbb{Z})\\backslash\\mathbb{H}$, cutting sequences, and regular continued fractions to the slow converging Lehner and Farey continued fractions with digits $(1,+1)$ and $(2,-1)$. We also introduce an alternative insertion and singularization algorithm for Farey expansions and other non-semiregular continued fractions, and an alternative dual expansion to the Farey expansions so that $\\frac{dxdy}{(1+xy)^2}$ is invariant under the natural extension map.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-01-16T21:26:00.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "geodesic flows", "farey expansions", "natural extension map", "modular surface", "alternative dual expansion" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }