Gauss measure 2026-10-05
The invariant measure for the Gauss continued-fraction map with density on . Inverse branches give transformed density , which telescopes to the same density.
For , and . Iterating this Gauss continued-fraction map on an irrational number never reaches zero, and its continued fraction is
The branches have inverse , for . The change of variables formula for a probability density function gives, almost everywhere,
The endpoints of these branches are a countable set of probability zero. Thus and have the same distribution; this Gauss measure is an invariant measure for the Gauss continued-fraction map.