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Continued fractions and Fourier transforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

R. Kaufman
R. Kaufman
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Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A.
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Let FN be the set of real numbers x whose continued fraction expansion x = [a0; a1, a2,…, an,…] contains only elements ai = 1,2,…, N. Here N ≥ 2. Considerable effort, [1,3], has centred on metrical properties of FN and certain measures carried by FN. A classification of sets of measure zero, as venerable as the dimensional theory, depends on Fourier-Stieltjes transforms: a closed set E of real numbers is called an M0-set, if E carries a probability measure λ whose transform vanishes at infinity. Aside from the Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma, no purely metrical property of E can ensure that E is an M0-set. For the sets FN, however, metrical properties can be used to construct the measure λ.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , December 1980 , pp. 262 - 267
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Copyright © University College London 1980

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