Bounded Remainder Sets

Abstract

The paper considers the category ( $$ \mathcal{T} $$ , S, X) consisting of mappings S : $$ \mathcal{T} $$ −→ $$ \mathcal{T} $$ of spaces $$ \mathcal{T} $$ with distinguished subsets X ⊂ $$ \mathcal{T} $$ . Let rX (i, x0) be the distribution function of points of an S-orbit x0, x1 = S(x0), . . . , xi−1 = Si−1(x0) getting into X, and let δX (i, x0) be the deviation defined by the equation rX (i, x0) = aX i + δX (i, x0), where aX i is the average value. If δX (i, x0) = O(1), then such sets X are called bounded remainder sets. In the paper, bounded remainder sets X are constructed in the following cases: (1) the space $$ \mathcal{T} $$ is the circle, torus, or the Klein bottle; (2) the map S is a rotation of the circle, a shift or an exchange mapping of the torus; (3) X is a fixed subset X ⊂ $$ \mathcal{T} $$ or a sequence of subsets depending on the iteration number i = 0, 1, 2, . . .. Bibliography: 27 titles.