The alternating grid system periodicity and continued-fraction tiling conjecture

Let R+R_+ denote the positive real numbers, and let As=(R1,0Rs,0)2A_s=(R_{1,0}R_{s,0})^2 be the alternating grid system. Let QsQ_s be the square of Gs,0G_{s,0} whose bottom-left vertex is the origin. Alternating grid system conjecture. For every sR+s\in R_+, almost every point of AsA_s is periodic. Inside QsQ_s there is a sequence of periodic islands, alternately sharing edges with the two coordinate axes, which encodes the continued fraction expansion of ss. This conjecture concerns the proposed relationship between the periodic-island structure and continued fractions; the supplied text gives motivating examples but no resolution.

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Richard Evan Schwartz, “Square Turning Maps and their Compactifications”, arXiv:1307.0646 (2013).

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