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Two-colour rotations of the unit circle
V. G. Zhuravlev Vladimir State Pedagogical University
Abstract:
We consider two-colour, or double, rotations
$S_{(\alpha,\beta,\varepsilon)}(x)$ of the unit circle
$C$ the
colouring of which depends on a continuous parameter
$\varepsilon\in C$
and each area of which is given its own rotation angle,
$\alpha$
or
$\beta$. We choose as a model the one-parameter family of two-colour
rotations $S_\varepsilon(x)=S_{(2\tau,\tau,\varepsilon)}(x)$,
where
$\tau=(1+\sqrt{5}\,)/2$ is the golden ratio,
which have rotation rank
$d=2$. It is proved that the first-return map
$S_\varepsilon|\mathrm{Att}_\varepsilon$ (the restriction of the
rotation
$S_\varepsilon(x)$ to its attractor
$\mathrm{Att}_\varepsilon$)
is isomorphic to the integral map
$T_\varepsilon=T(S^{\pm1},d_\varepsilon)$ constructed from the simple
rotation
$S$ of the circle through the angle
$\pm \tau$ and
some piecewise-constant function
$d_\varepsilon$.
An exact formula is obtained for the function
$\nu(\varepsilon)$
of frequency distribution of points of the orbits
under the action of
$S_\varepsilon$.
Keywords:
two-colour (double) rotations, ITM-maps (interval translation maps), distribution of fractional parts, Fibonacci tilings.
UDC:
514
MSC: 37E10,
37B10,
37E45,
11B85 Received: 10.10.2005
Revised: 23.10.2007
DOI:
10.4213/im601