Numbers with integer expansion in the numeration system with negative base

Details Numbers with integer expansion in the numeration system with negative base Numbers with integer expansion in the numeration system with negative base

2009-12-23

arxiv.org/abs/0912.4597v3

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Number Theory

25 pages, 8 figures

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In this paper, we study representations of real numbers in the positional numeration system with negative basis, as introduced by Ito and Sadahiro. We focus on the set $\Z_{-\beta}$ of numbers whose representation uses only non-negative powers of $-\beta$, the so-called $(-\beta)$-integers. We describe the distances between consecutive elements of $\Z_{-\beta}$. In case that this set is non-trivial we associate to $\beta$ an infinite word $\boldsymbol{v}_{-\beta}$ over an (in general infinite) alphabet. The self-similarity of $\Z_{-\beta}$, i.e., the property $-\beta \Z_{-\beta}\subset \Z_{-\beta}$, allows us to find a morphism under which $\boldsymbol{v}_{-\beta}$ is invariant. On the example of two cubic irrational bases $\beta$ we demonstrate the difference between Rauzy fractals generated by $(-\beta)$-integers and by $\beta$-integers.

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