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Izv. RAN. Ser. Mat., 2021 Volume 85, Issue 4, Pages 53–68 (Mi im9072)

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Symmetries of a two-dimensional continued fraction

O. N. Germanab, I. A. Tlyustangelovab

a Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
b Moscow Center for Fundamental and Applied Mathematics

Abstract: We describe the symmetry group of a multidimensional continued fraction. As a multidimensional generalization of continued fractions we consider Klein polyhedra. We distinguish two types of symmetries: Dirichlet symmetries, which correspond to the multiplication by units of the respective extension of $\mathbb{Q}$, and so-called palindromic symmetries. The main result is a criterion for a two-dimensional continued fraction to have palindromic symmetries, which is analogous to the well-known criterion for the continued fraction of a quadratic irrationality to have a symmetric period.

Keywords: multidimensional continued fractions, Klein polyhedra, Dirichlet's unit theorem.

UDC: 511.48

MSC: 11J70, 11H46

Received: 17.06.2020

DOI: 10.4213/im9072


 English version:
Izvestiya: Mathematics, 2021, 85:4, 666–680

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