Brjuno number

In mathematics, a Brjuno number (sometimes spelled Bruno or Bryuno) is a special type of irrational number named for Russian mathematician Alexander Bruno, who introduced them in .

Formal definition

An irrational number $\alpha$ is called a Brjuno number when the infinite sum
:$B(\alpha) = \sum_^\infty \frac$
converges to a finite number.

Here:
* $q_n$ is the denominator of the th convergent $\tfrac$ of the continued fraction expansion of $\alpha$.
* $B$ is a Brjuno function

Importance

The Brjuno numbers are important in the one–dimensional analytic small divisors problems. Bruno improved the diophantine condition in Siegel's Theorem, showed that germs of holomorphic functions with linear part $e^$ are linearizable if $\alpha$ is a Brjuno number. showed in 1987 that this condition is also necessary, and for quadratic polynomials is necessary and sufficient.

Properties

Intuitively, these numbers do not have many large "jumps" in the sequence of convergents, in which the denominator of the ()th convergent is exponentially larger than that of the th convergent. Thus, in contrast to the Liouville numbers, they do not have unusually accurate diophantine approximations by rational numbers.

Brjuno function

Brjuno sum

The Brjuno sum or Brjuno function $B$ is

:$B(\alpha) = \sum_^\infty \frac$

where:
* $q_n$ is the denominator of the th convergent $\tfrac$ of the continued fraction expansion of $\alpha$.

Real variant

The real Brjuno function $B(\alpha)$ is defined for irrational numbers $\alpha$
:$B : \R \setminus \Q \to \R \cup \$

and satisfies

:$\begin B(\alpha) &= B(\alpha+1) \\ B(\alpha) &= - \log \alpha + \alpha B(1/\alpha) \end$

for all irrational $\alpha$ between 0 and 1.

Yoccoz's variant

Yoccoz's variant of the Brjuno sum defined as follows:scholarpedia: Quadratic Siegel disks
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:$Y(\alpha)=\sum_^ \alpha_0\cdots \alpha_ \log \frac,$

where:
* $\alpha$ is irrational real number: $\alpha\in \R \setminus \Q$
* $\alpha_0$ is the fractional part of $\alpha$
* $\alpha_$ is the fractional part of $\alpha_n$

This sum converges if and only if the Brjuno sum does, and in fact their difference is bounded by a universal constant.

See also

* Transcendental number

References

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