Using the natural extensions for the Rosen maps, we give an infinite-order-chain representation of the sequence of the incomplete quotients of the Rosen fractions. Together with the ergodic behaviour of a certain homogeneous random system with complete connections, this allows us to solve a variant of Gauss-Kuzmin problem for the above fraction expansion.

We give a new proof of the following conjecture of Yoccoz:$$(\exists C\in ℝ)(\forall \theta \in ℝ\setminus \mathbb{Q})log\mathrm{rad}\Delta \left(Q_{\theta }\right)\le -Y\left(\theta \right)+C,$$where $Q_{\theta }\left(z\right)={\mathrm{e}}^{2\pi i\theta }z+z^2$, $\Delta \left(Q_{\theta }\right)$ is its Siegel disk if $Q_{\theta }$ is linearizable (or $\varnothing$ otherwise), $\mathrm{rad}\Delta \left(Q_{\theta }\right)$ is the conformal radius of the Siegel disk of $Q_{\theta }$ (or $0$ if there is none) and $Y\left(\theta \right)$ is Yoccoz’s Brjuno function.In a former article we obtained a first proof based on the control of parabolic explosion. Here, we present a more elementary proof based on Yoccoz’s initial methods.We then extend this result to some new families of polynomials such as $z^d+c$ with $d\>2$. We also show that...

In this survey article we start from the famous Furstenberg theorem on non-lacunary semigroups of integers, and next we present its generalizations and some related results.

In this paper the Engel continued fraction (ECF) expansion of any $x\in (0,1)$ is introduced. Basic and ergodic properties of this expansion are studied. Also the relation between the ECF and F. Ryde’s monotonen, nicht-abnehmenden Kettenbruch (MNK) is studied.

Nilsequences arose in the study of the multiple ergodic averages associated to Furstenberg’s proof of Szemerédi’s Theorem and have since played a role in problems in additive combinatorics. Nilsequences are a generalization of almost periodic sequences and we study which portions of the classical theory for almost periodic sequences can be generalized for two step nilsequences. We state and prove basic properties for two step nilsequences and give a classification scheme for them.

Let β ∈ (1,2) and x ∈ [0,1/(β-1)]. We call a sequence ${\left({ϵ}_i\right)}_{i=1}^{\infty }\in {0,1}^{\mathbb{N}}$ a β-expansion for x if $x={\sum }_{i=1}^{\infty }{ϵ}_i{\beta }^{-i}$. We call a finite sequence ${\left({ϵ}_i\right)}_{i=1}^n\in {0,1}^n$ an n-prefix for x if it can be extended to form a β-expansion of x. In this paper we study how good an approximation is provided by the set of n-prefixes. Given $\Psi :\mathbb{N}\to {ℝ}_{\ge 0}$, we introduce the following subset of ℝ: $W_{\beta }\left(\Psi \right):={\bigcap }_{m=1}^{\infty }{\bigcup }_{n=m}^{\infty }{\bigcup }_{{\left({ϵ}_i\right)}_{i=1}^n\in {0,1}^n}[{\sum }_{i=1}^n\left({ϵ}_i\right)/\left({\beta }^i\right),{\sum }_{i=1}^n\left({ϵ}_i\right)/\left({\beta }^i\right)+\Psi \left(n\right)]$In other words, $W_{\beta }\left(\Psi \right)$ is the set of x ∈ ℝ for which there exist infinitely many solutions to the inequalities $0\le x-{\sum }_{i=1}^n\left({ϵ}_i\right)/\left({\beta }^i\right)\le \Psi \left(n\right)$. When ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }{2}^n\Psi \left(n\right)<\infty$, the Borel-Cantelli lemma tells us that the Lebesgue measure of $W_{\beta }\left(\Psi \right)$ is...

We describe some of the machinery behind recent progress in establishing infinitely many arithmetic progressions of length k in various sets of integers, in particular in arbitrary dense subsets of the integers, and in the primes.

We analyze and cite applications of various, loosely related notions of uniformity inherent to the phenomenon of (multiple) recurrence in ergodic theory. An assortment of results are obtained, among them sharpenings of two theorems due to Bourgain. The first of these, which in the original guarantees existence of sets x,x+h,$x+h^2$ in subsets E of positive measure in the unit interval, with lower bounds on h depending only on m(E), is expanded to the case of arbitrary finite polynomial configurations...

The atomic surfaces of unimodular Pisot substitutions of irreducible type have been studied by many authors. In this article, we study the atomic surfaces of Pisot substitutions of reducible type.As an analogue of the irreducible case, we define the stepped-surface and the dual substitution over it. Using these notions, we give a simple proof to the fact that atomic surfaces form a self-similar tiling system. We show that the stepped-surface possesses the quasi-periodic property, which implies that...

Nous étudions une classe de suites symboliques, les codages de rotations, intervenant dans des problèmes de répartition des suites ${\left(n\alpha \right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ et représentant une généralisation géométrique des suites sturmiennes. Nous montrons que ces suites peuvent être obtenues par itération de quatre substitutions définies sur un alphabet à trois lettres, puis en appliquant un morphisme de projection. L’ordre d’itération de ces applications est gouverné par un développement bi-dimensionnel de type “fraction continue”...