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Publications and source records attributed to A. Muhammed Uludağ.
We introduce a groupoid ${\mathbf{ΠMG}}}$, called the fundamental modular groupoid, which is a variant of Penner's mapping class groupoid. We study how it relates to the surface mapping class groups and Thompson's group $\mathsf T$. We also introduce larger groupoid $\mathbf{ΩMG}$, which is related to outer automorphisms of free groups and Thompson's group $\mathsf V$ in a similar manner.
We introduce a four-parameter deformation of continued fractions, which we call $ U $-deformation. We study some particular cases and compare them with the q-deformation of continued fractions introduce recently by Morier-Genoud and Ovsienko.
We determine some composition laws related to the Fricke surface and the "double" Fricke surface. This latter surface admits the squares of Markov triples as its solutions.
In this paper, we answer the question: "what is the qth Fibonacci number, where q is a positive rational?". The answer is the codenominator function, which is an integral-valued map. It is defined via a pair of functional equations. Many Fibonacci identities in the literature are valid for the codenominator. It is related to the recently introduced involution Jimm and to the outer automorphism of PGL(2,Z)
We study the values of the recently introduced involution J (jimm) of the real line, which is equivariant with the action of the group PGL(2,Z). We test our conjecture that this involution sends algebraic numbers of degree at least three to transcendental values. We also deduce some theoretical results concerning the continued fraction statistics of the generic values of this involution and compare them with the experimental results.
InfoMod is a new software and application devoted to the modular group, PSL2(Z). It has algorithms that deals with the classical correspondences among continued fractions, geodesics on the modular surface and binary quadratic forms. In addition the software implements the recently discovered representation of Gauss' indefinite binary quadratic forms and their classes in terms of certain infinite planar graphs (dessins) called çarks. InfoMod illustrates various aspects of these forms, i.e. Gauss' reduction algorithm, the representation problem of forms, ambiguous and reciprocal forms. It can be used as an educational tool, and might be used to explore some new facts about these objects.
We study the involution of the real line induced by the outer automorphism of the extended modular group PGL(2,Z). This `modular' involution is discontinuous at rationals but satisfies a surprising collection of functional equations. It preserves the set of real quadratic irrationals mapping them in a non-obvious way to each other. It commutes with the Galois action on real quadratic irrationals. More generally, it preserves set-wise the orbits of the modular group, thereby inducing an involution of the moduli space of real rank-two lattices. We give a description of this involution as the boundary action of a certain automorphism of the infinite trivalent tree. It is conjectured that algebraic numbers of degree at least three are mapped to transcendental numbers under this involution.
We give an overview of the category of subgroups of the modular group, incorporating both the tame part, i.e. finite index subgroups, and the non-tame part, i.e. the rest. We also discuss arithmetic related questions which exist in both the tame part (via Belyi's theorem) and the non-tame part.
We compute the presentations of fundamental groups of the complements of a class of rational cuspidal projective plane curves classified by Flenner, Zaidenberg, Fenske and Saito. We use the Zariski-Van Kampen algorithm and exploit the Cremona transformations used in the construction of these curves. We simplify and study these group presentations so obtained and determine if they are abelian, finite or big, i.e. if they contain free non-abelian subgroups. We also study the quotients of these groups to some extend.
We study the involution of the real line induced by the outer automorphism of the extended modular group PGL(2,Z). This `modular' involution is discontinuous at rationals but satisfies a surprising collection of functional equations. It preserves the set of real quadratic irrationalities mapping them in a highly non-obvious way to each other. It commutes with the Galois action on real quadratic irrationals. More generally, it preserves set-wise the orbits of the modular group, thereby inducing an involution of the moduli space of real rank-two lattices. It induces a duality of Beatty partitions of the set of positive integers. This involution conjugates (though not topologically) the Gauss' continued fraction map to an intermittent dynamical system on the unit interval with an infinite invariant measure. The transfer operator (resp. the functional equation) naturally associated to this dynamical system is closely related to the Mayer transfer operator (resp. the Lewis' functional equation). We give a description of this involution as the boundary action of a certain automorphism of the infinite trivalent tree. We prove that its derivative exists and vanishes almost everywhere. It is conjectured that algebraic numbers of degree at least three are mapped to transcendental numbers under this involution.
We show that the class of every primitive indefinite binary quadratic form is naturally represented by an infinite graph (named çark) with a unique cycle embedded on a conformal annulus. This cycle is called the spine of the çark. Every choice of an edge of a fixed çark specifies an indefinite binary quadratic form in the class represented by the çark. Reduced forms in the class represented by a çark correspond to some distinguished edges on its spine. Gauss reduction is the process of moving the edge in the direction of the spine of the çark. Ambiguous and reciprocal classes are represented by çarks with symmetries. Periodic çarks represent classes of non-primitive forms.