Geodesic flows and the mother of all continued fractions

Abstract

We extend the Series' connection between the modular surface $\mathcal{M}=\operatorname{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\backslash\mathbb{H}$, cutting sequences, and regular continued fractions to the slow converging Lehner and Farey continued fractions with digits $(1,+1)$ and $(2,-1)$ in the notation used for the Lehner continued fractions. We also introduce an alternative insertion and singularization algorithm for Farey expansions and other non-semiregular continued fractions, and an alternative dual expansion to the Farey expansions so that $\frac{dxdy}{(1+xy)^2}$ is invariant under the natural extension map.