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Gaussian Behavior of Quadratic Irrationals
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2021-10Registro en:
Cesaratto, Eda; Vallée, Brigitte; Gaussian Behavior of Quadratic Irrationals; Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Mathematics; Acta Arithmetica; 197; 2; 10-2021; 159-205
0065-1036
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Autor
Cesaratto, Eda
Vallée, Brigitte
Resumen
We study the probabilistic behaviour of the continued fraction expansion of a quadratic irrational number, when weighted by some "additive" cost. We prove asymptotic Gaussian limit laws, with an optimal speed of convergence. We deal with the underlying dynamical system associated with the Gauss map, and its weighted periodic trajectories. We work with analytic combinatorics methods, and mainly with bivariate Dirichlet generating functions; we use various tools, from number theory (the Landau Theorem), from probability (the Quasi-Powers Theorem), or from dynamical systems: our main object of study is the (weighted) transfer operator, that we relate with the generating functions of interest. The present paper exhibits a strong parallelism with the methods which have been previously introduced by Baladi and Vallée in the study of rational trajectories. However, the present study is more involved and uses a deeper functional analysis framework.