Dynamics of continued fractions and kneading sequences of unimodal maps
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In this paper we construct a correspondence between the parameter spaces of two families of one-dimensional dynamical systems, the α-continued fraction transformations Tα and unimodal maps. This correspondence identifies bifurcation parameters in the two families, and allows one to transfer topological and metric properties from one setting to the other. As an application, we recover results about the real slice of the Mandelbrot set, and the set of univoque numbers.
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