On the bifurcation set of unique expansions

Charlene Kalle ¹   ; Derong Kong ²   ; Wenxia Li ³   ; Fan Lü ⁴

¹ Mathematical Institute University of Leiden PO Box 9512 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
² College of Mathematics and Statistics Chongqing University 401331 Chongqing, China
³ School of Mathematical Sciences Shanghai Key Laboratory of PMMP East China Normal University Shanghai 200062, People’s Republic of China
⁴ Department of Mathematics Sichuan Normal University Chengdu 610068, People’s Republic of China

Acta Arithmetica, Tome 188 (2019) no. 4, pp. 367-399

Résumé

Given a positive integer $M$, for $q\in(1, M+1]$ let ${\mathcal{U}}_q$ be the set of $x\in[0, M/(q-1)]$ having a unique $q$-expansion with the digit set $\{0, 1,\ldots, M\}$, and let $\mathbf{U}_q$ be the set of corresponding $q$-expansions. Recently, Komornik et al. (2017) showed that the topological entropy function $H: q \mapsto h_{\rm top}(\mathbf{U}_q)$ is a devil’s staircase in $(1, M+1]$. Let $\mathscr{B}$ be the bifurcation set of $H$ defined by \[ \mathscr{B}=\{q\in(1, M+1]: H(p)\ne H(q)\ \textrm{for any} p\ne q\}. \] We analyze the fractal properties of $\mathscr{B}$ and show that for any $q\in \mathscr{B}$, \[ \lim_{\delta\rightarrow 0} \dim_H(\mathscr{B}\cap(q-\delta, q+\delta))=\dim_H\mathcal{U}_q, \] where $\dim_H$ denotes the Hausdorff dimension. Moreover, when $q\in\mathscr{B}$ the univoque set $\mathcal{U}_q$ is dimensionally homogeneous, i.e., $ \dim_H(\mathcal{U}_q\cap V)=\dim_H\mathcal{U}_q $ for any open set $V$ that intersects $\mathcal{U}_q$. As an application we obtain a dimensional spectrum result for the set $\mathscr{U}$ containing all bases $q\in(1, M+1]$ such that $1$ admits a unique $q$-expansion. In particular, we prove that for any $t \gt 1$ we have \[ \dim_H(\mathscr{U}\cap(1, t])=\max_{ q\le t}\dim_H\mathcal{U}_q. \] We also consider the variations of the sets $\mathscr{U}=\mathscr{U}(M)$ when $M$ varies.

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DOI : 10.4064/aa171212-11-7

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