Uniform Distribution Theory
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Journal

Uniform Distribution Theory


Volume
& Issue

Volume 9, Issue 2


Published
on


Pages

135-156


DOI

Article

Comment écrire les nombres relatifs dans une base qui n'est pas entière


Authors

Anne Bertrand-Mathis Affiliation:
Université de Poitiers UFR Sciences SP2MI 11, Bd. Marie et Pierre Curie BP 30179 F-86962 Futuroscope Chasseneuil Cedex FRANCE


Abstract

To each number \(\beta > 1\) we associate a numeration system which allows us to
write any integer \(m\) of \(\mathbb{Z}\) in base \(-\beta\):
\[
m = a_k K_k + \cdots + a_1 K_1 + a_0 K_0
\]
(where \((K_n)_{n \ge 0}\) is a specific sequence which satisfies
\(\lim\limits_{n \to \infty} K_{n+1}/K_n = -\beta\)); the words
\(a_k \ldots a_1 a_0\) that we obtain are the words without leading \(0\) of the
language of a dynamical system, the \(-\beta\) shift. With an adapted order,
the correspondence between the words of the language and \(\mathbb{Z}\)
becomes an increasing bijection.

We also define the corresponding \(-\beta\) substitution.


Keywords

Numeration, Number Theory, Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems, Combinatorics, Substitutions.


Citation

Bertrand-Mathis, A. (2014). Comment écrire les nombres relatifs dans une base qui n'est pas entière. Uniform Distribution Theory, 9(2), 135–156.

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