Reciprocity obstructions in semigroup orbits in SL(2,Z)
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Abstract
We study orbits of semigroups of SL(2,Z), and demonstrate reciprocity obstructions: we show that certain such orbits avoid squares, but not as a consequence of obstructions inherited from an algebraic set, and not as a consequence of congruence obstructions. This is in analogy to the reciprocity obstructions recently used to disprove the Apollonian local–global conjecture. We give an example of such an orbit which is known exactly, and misses all squares together with an explicit finite list of sporadic values: the corresponding semigroup is not thin, but is dense in an algebraic variety that does not have such obstructions. We also demonstrate thin semigroups with reciprocity obstructions, including semigroups associated to continued fractions formed from finite alphabets. Zaremba’s conjecture states that for continued fractions with coefficients chosen from {1,…,5}, every positive integer appears as a denominator. Bourgain and Kontorovich proposed a generalization of Zaremba’s conjecture in the context of semigroups associated to finite alphabets. We disprove their conjecture. In particular, we demonstrate classes of finite continued fraction expansions which never represent rationals with square denominator, but not as a consequence of congruence obstructions, and for which the limit set has Hausdorff dimension exceeding 1∕2. An example of such a class is continued fractions of the form [0;a1,a2,…,an,1,1,2], where the ai are chosen from the set {4,8,12,…,128}. The object at the heart of these results is a semigroup Ψ⊆Γ1(4) which preserves Kronecker symbols.
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