Hensley's dimension-denominator conjecture for continued-fraction alphabets
Hensley's dimension-denominator conjecture for continued-fraction alphabets
Let be a finite alphabet. Let be the continued-fraction Cantor set
and let be the set of denominators of the partial convergents to . Denote the Hausdorff dimension of by .
Hensley's conjecture. The denominators contain every sufficiently large natural number if and only if the Hausdorff dimension exceeds one half:
The source later states that this claim is false: the alphabet has dimension but has congruence obstructions. Thus the conjecture is refuted.
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Primary source
Alex Kontorovich, “From Apollonius To Zaremba: Local-Global Phenomena in Thin Orbits”, arXiv:1208.5460 (2012).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2012). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1107.3776.
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