# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2013, 33(4): 1313-1332. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1313

## Dynamics of continued fractions and kneading sequences of unimodal maps

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5, I-56127, Italy, Italy 2 Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Camerino, via Madonna delle Carceri, I-62032 Camerino 3 Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, One Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Received  September 2011 Revised  January 2012 Published  October 2012

In this paper we construct a correspondence between the parameter spaces of two families of one-dimensional dynamical systems, the $\alpha$-continued fraction transformations $T_\alpha$ and unimodal maps. This correspondence identifies bifurcation parameters in the two families, and allows one to transfer topological and metric properties from one setting to the other. As an application, we recover results about the real slice of the Mandelbrot set, and the set of univoque numbers.
Citation: Claudio Bonanno, Carlo Carminati, Stefano Isola, Giulio Tiozzo. Dynamics of continued fractions and kneading sequences of unimodal maps. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (4) : 1313-1332. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1313
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Tiozzo, A canonical thickening of $\Q$ and the entropy of $\alpha$-continued fraction transformations,, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems, 32 (2012), 1249. doi: 10.1017/S0143385711000447. Google Scholar [8] C. Carminati, S. Marmi, A. Profeti and G. Tiozzo, The entropy of $\alpha$-continued fractions: numerical results,, Nonlinearity, 23 (2010), 2429. doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/23/10/005. Google Scholar [9] J. Cassaigne, Limit values of the recurrence quotient of Sturmian sequences,, Theoret. Comput. Sci., 218 (1999), 3. Google Scholar [10] W. de Melo and S. van Strien, "One-dimensional Dynamics,'', Springer-Verlag, (1993). Google Scholar [11] M. de Vries, A property of algebraic univoque numbers,, Acta Math. Hungar, 119 (2008), 57. doi: 10.1007/s10474-007-6252-x. Google Scholar [12] A. Douady, Topological entropy of unimodal maps: monotonicity for quadratic polynomials,, in, 464 (1995), 65. Google Scholar [13] P. Erdös, M. Horváth and I. 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Phys., 61 (1990), 263. doi: 10.1007/BF01013965. Google Scholar [20] V. Komornik and P. Loreti, Unique developments in non-integer bases,, Amer. Math. Monthly, 105 (1998), 936. Google Scholar [21] V. Komornik and P. Loreti, On the topological structure of univoque sets,, J. Number Theory, 122 (2007), 157. Google Scholar [22] C. Kraaikamp, T. A. Schmidt and W. Steiner, Natural extensions and entropy of $\alpha$-continued fractions,, Nonlinearity, 25 (2012), 2207. doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/25/8/2207. Google Scholar [23] L. Luzzi and S. Marmi, On the entropy of Japanese continued fractions,, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 20 (2008), 673. Google Scholar [24] M. Lyubich, Dynamics of quadratic polynomials. I, II,, Acta Math., 178 (1997), 185. doi: 10.1007/BF02392694. Google Scholar [25] K. Mahler, Aritmetische Eigenschaften der Lösungen einer Klasse von Funktionalgleichungen,, Math. Annalen, 101 (1929), 342. Google Scholar [26] N. G. Makarov, Conformal mapping and Hausdorff measures,, Ark. 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Tiozzo, The entropy of Nakada's $\alpha$-continued fractions: analytical results,, to appear on Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci., (). Google Scholar [34] S. Zakeri, External rays and the real slice of the Mandelbrot set,, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems, 23 (2003), 637. Google Scholar
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