University of Calgary

Geometrical continued fractions and Anosov diffeomorphisms

Submitted by ppaterso on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 2:08pm.
Apr 3 2009 - 2:00pm
Apr 3 2009 - 3:00pm
Speaker: 
Grigory Kolyutskiy
Location: 
MS 365
Colloquium
We show how an object from the combinatorially geometric version of the analytical number theory, namely geometrical continued fractions, appears in the classical smooth dynamics, namely in the problem on the topological classification of Anosov diffeomorphisms of tori.