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A Note On The Lyapunov Exponent In Continued Fraction Expansions, Jianzhong Cheng, Lu-Ming Shen

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

Let T:[0,1) \to [0,1) be the Gauss transformation. For any irrational x \in [0,1), the Lyapunov exponent \alpha(x) of x is defined as \alpha(x)=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n} \log (T^n)'(x) . By Birkoff Average Theorem, one knows that \alpha(x) exists almost surely. However, in this paper, we will see that the non-typical set \{x\in [0,1):\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n} \log (T^n)'(x) does not exist\} carries full Hausdorff dimension.