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Metrical diophantine approximation for continued fraction like maps of the interval

Author(s): Andrew Haas; David Molnar
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), 2851-2870.
MSC (2000): Primary 11J70, 11J83, 37E05
Posted: July 24, 2003
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Abstract: We study the metrical properties of a class of continued fraction-like mappings of the unit interval, each of which is defined as the fractional part of a Möbius transformation taking the endpoints of the interval to zero and infinity.

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Andrew Haas
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3009
Email: haas@math.uconn.edu

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