Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
6872624 Discrete Applied Mathematics 2012 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
In this paper we consider a numeration system, originally due to Ostrowski, based on the continued fraction expansion of a real number α. We prove that this system has deep connections with the Sturmian graph associated with α. We provide several properties of the representations of the natural integers in this system. In particular, we prove that the set of lazy representations of the natural integers in this numeration system is regular if and only if the continued fraction expansion of α is eventually periodic. The main result of the paper is that for any number i the unique path weighted i in the Sturmian graph associated with α represents the lazy representation of i in the Ostrowski numeration system associated with α.
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