Dissertation
Matching, entropy, holes and expansions
In this dissertation, matching, entropy, holes and expansions come together. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory and dynamical systems.
- Author
- Langeveld, N.D.S.
- Date
- 10 December 2019
- Links
- Thesis in Leiden Repository
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In this dissertation, matching, entropy, holes and expansions come together. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory and dynamical systems. The second chapter is on, what we called Flipped $\alpha$-expansions. For this family we have an invariant measure that is $\sigma$-finite infinite. We calculate the Krengel entropy for a large part of the parameter space and find an explicit expression for the density by using the natural extension. In Chapter 3 Ito Tanaka's $\alpha$-continued fractions are studied. We prove that matching holds almost everywhere and that the non-matching set has full Hausdorff dimension. In the fourth chapter we study $N$-expansions with flips. We use a Gauss-Kuzmin-Levy method to approximate the density for a large family and use this to give an estimation for the entropy. In the last Chapter we look at greedy $\beta$-expansions. We show that for almost every $\beta\in(1,2]$ the set of points $t$ for which the forward orbit avoids the hole $[0,t)$ has infinitely many isolated and infinitely many accumulation points in any neighborhood of zero. Furthermore, we characterize the set of $\beta$ for which there are no accumulation points and show that this set has Hausdorff dimension zero.