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[[Image:Farey diagram square.png|thumb|Farey diagram to ''F''<sub>5</sub>.]] | |||
[[Image:Farey diagram horizontal arc.png|thumb|Farey diagram to ''F''<sub>5</sub>.]] | |||
[[Image:Farey sequence denominators.png|thumb|Symmetrical pattern made by the denominators of the Farey sequence, ''F''<sub>8</sub>.]] | |||
In [[mathematics]], the '''Farey sequence''' of order ''n'' is the [[sequence]] of completely reduced [[vulgar fraction|fraction]]s between 0 and 1 which, when [[in lowest terms]], have [[denominator]]s less than or equal to ''n'', arranged in order of increasing size. | |||
Each Farey sequence starts with the value 0, denoted by the fraction <sup>0</sup>⁄<sub>1</sub>, and ends with the value 1, denoted by the fraction <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>1</sub> (although some authors omit these terms). | |||
A Farey sequence is sometimes called a Farey [[series (mathematics)|series]], which is not strictly correct, because the terms are not summed. | |||
==Examples== | |||
The Farey sequences of orders 1 to 8 are : | |||
:''F''<sub>1</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} } | |||
:''F''<sub>2</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} } | |||
:''F''<sub>3</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} } | |||
:''F''<sub>4</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} } | |||
:''F''<sub>5</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} } | |||
:''F''<sub>6</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} } | |||
:''F''<sub>7</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|6|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} } | |||
:''F''<sub>8</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|8}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|8}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|8}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|6|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|7|8}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} } | |||
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<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">''F''<sub>1</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} }</div> | |||
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">''F''<sub>2</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} }</div> | |||
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">''F''<sub>3</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} }</div> | |||
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">''F''<sub>4</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} }</div> | |||
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">''F''<sub>5</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} }</div> | |||
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">''F''<sub>6</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} }</div> | |||
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">''F''<sub>7</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|6|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} }</div> | |||
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">''F''<sub>8</sub> = { {{sfrac|0|1}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|8}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|8}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|2}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|8}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|2|3}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|3|4}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|4|5}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|5|6}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|6|7}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|7|8}}<sub>,</sub> {{sfrac|1|1}} }</div> | |||
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F1 = {0/1, 1/1} | |||
F2 = {0/1, 1/2, 1/1} | |||
F3 = {0/1, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 1/1} | |||
F4 = {0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1} | |||
F5 = {0/1, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 1/1} | |||
F6 = {0/1, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 1/1} | |||
F7 = {0/1, 1/7, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 2/7, 1/3, 2/5, 3/7, 1/2, 4/7, 3/5, 2/3, 5/7, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 6/7, 1/1} | |||
F8 = {0/1, 1/8, 1/7, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 2/7, 1/3, 3/8, 2/5, 3/7, 1/2, 4/7, 3/5, 5/8, 2/3, 5/7, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 6/7, 7/8, 1/1} | |||
</div> | |||
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==History== | |||
:''The history of 'Farey series' is very curious'' — Hardy & Wright (1979) Chapter III<ref>[[G. H. Hardy|Hardy, G.H.]] & [[E. M. Wright|Wright, E.M.]] (1979) ''An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers'' (Fifth Edition). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-853171-0</ref> | |||
:''... once again the man whose name was given to a mathematical relation was not the original discoverer so far as the records go.'' — Beiler (1964) Chapter XVI<ref name=Beiler>Beiler, Albert H. (1964) ''Recreations in the Theory of Numbers'' (Second Edition). Dover. ISBN 0-486-21096-0. Cited in [http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/FareyHistory.shtml Farey Series, A Story] at [[Cut-the-Knot]]</ref> | |||
Farey sequences are named after the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[geologist]] [[John Farey, Sr.]], whose letter about these sequences was published in the ''[[Philosophical Magazine]]'' in 1816. Farey conjectured, without offering proof, that each new term in a Farey sequence expansion is the [[mediant (mathematics)|mediant]] of its neighbours. Farey's letter was read by [[Cauchy]], who provided a proof in his ''Exercises de mathématique'', and attributed this result to Farey. In fact, another mathematician, [[Charles Haros]], had published similar results in 1802 which were not known either to Farey or to Cauchy.<ref name=Beiler/> Thus it was a historical accident that linked Farey's name with these sequences. This is an example of [[Stigler's law of eponymy]]. | |||
==Properties== | |||
[[File:Farey diagram circle packing.png|thumb]] | |||
===Sequence length=== | |||
The Farey sequence of order ''n'' contains all of the members of the Farey sequences of lower orders. In particular ''F<sub>n</sub>'' contains all of the members of ''F''<sub>''n''−1</sub>, and also contains an additional fraction for each number that is less than ''n'' and [[coprime]] to ''n''. Thus ''F''<sub>6</sub> consists of ''F''<sub>5</sub> together with the fractions {{sfrac|1|6}} and {{sfrac|5|6}}. The middle term of a Farey sequence ''F''<sub>''n''</sub> is always {{sfrac|1|2}}, for ''n'' > 1. | |||
From this, we can relate the lengths of ''F<sub>n</sub>'' and ''F''<sub>''n''−1</sub> using [[Euler's totient function]] φ(''n'') : | |||
:<math>|F_n| = |F_{n-1}| + \varphi(n).</math> | |||
Using the fact that |''F''<sub>1</sub>| = 2, we can derive an expression for the length of ''F<sub>n</sub>'' : | |||
:<math>|F_n| = 1 + \sum_{m=1}^n \varphi(m).</math> | |||
We also have: | |||
:<math>|F_n| = \frac{1}{2}\left(3+\sum_{d=1}^n\mu(d)\left\lfloor\tfrac{n}{d}\right\rfloor^2\right),</math> | |||
where µ(''d'') is the number-theoretic [[Möbius function]], and | |||
:<math>|F_n| = \frac{1}{2}(n+3)n-\sum_{d=2}^n|F_{\lfloor n/d\rfloor}|,</math> | |||
by a [[Möbius inversion formula]]. | |||
The asymptotic behaviour of |''F<sub>n</sub>''| is : | |||
:<math>|F_n| \sim \frac {3n^2}{\pi^2}.</math> | |||
===Farey neighbours===<!-- This section is linked from [[Farey pair]] --> | |||
Fractions which are neighbouring terms in any Farey sequence are known as a ''Farey pair'' and have the following properties. | |||
If {{sfrac|''a''|''b''}} and {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} are neighbours in a Farey sequence, with {{sfrac|''a''|''b''}} < {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}}, then their difference {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} − {{sfrac|''a''|''b''}} is equal to {{sfrac|1|''bd''}}. Since | |||
:<math>\frac{c}{d} - \frac{a}{b} = \frac{bc - ad}{bd},</math> | |||
this is equivalent to saying that | |||
:''bc'' − ''ad'' = 1. | |||
Thus {{sfrac|1|3}} and {{sfrac|2|5}} are neighbours in ''F''<sub>5</sub>, and their difference is {{sfrac|1|15}}. | |||
The converse is also true. If | |||
:''bc'' − ''ad'' = 1 | |||
for positive integers ''a'',''b'',''c'' and ''d'' with ''a'' < ''b'' and ''c'' < ''d'' then {{sfrac|''a''|''b''}} and {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} will be neighbours in the Farey sequence of order max(''b,d''). | |||
If {{sfrac|''p''|''q''}} has neighbours {{sfrac|''a''|''b''}} and {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} in some Farey sequence, with | |||
:{{sfrac|''a''|''b''}} < {{sfrac|''p''|''q''}} < {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} | |||
then {{sfrac|''p''|''q''}} is the [[mediant (mathematics)|mediant]] of {{sfrac|''a''|''b''}} and {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} — in other words, | |||
:<math>\frac{p}{q} = \frac{a + c}{b + d}.</math> | |||
This follows easily from the previous property, since if ''bp''-''aq'' = ''qc''-''pd'' = 1, then ''bp''+''pd'' = ''qc''+''aq'', ''p''(''b''+''d'')=''q''(''a''+''c''), {{sfrac|''p''|''q''}} = {{sfrac|''a''+''c''|''b''+''d''}} | |||
It follows that if {{sfrac|''a''|''b''}} and {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} are neighbours in a Farey sequence then the first term that appears between them as the order of the Farey sequence is increased is | |||
:<math>\frac{a+c}{b+d},</math> | |||
which first appears in the Farey sequence of order ''b'' + ''d''. | |||
Thus the first term to appear between {{sfrac|1|3}} and {{sfrac|2|5}} is {{sfrac|3|8}}, which appears in ''F''<sub>8</sub>. | |||
The ''[[Stern-Brocot tree]]'' is a data structure showing how the sequence is built up from 0 (= {{sfrac|0|1}}) and 1 (= {{sfrac|1|1}}), by taking successive mediants. | |||
Fractions that appear as neighbours in a Farey sequence have closely related [[continued fraction]] expansions. Every fraction has two continued fraction expansions — in one the final term is 1; in the other the final term is greater than 1. If {{sfrac|''p''|''q''}}, which first appears in Farey sequence ''F<sub>q</sub>'', has continued fraction expansions | |||
:[0; ''a''<sub>1</sub>, ''a''<sub>2</sub>, …, ''a''<sub>''n'' − 1</sub>, ''a''<sub>''n''</sub>, 1] | |||
:[0; ''a''<sub>1</sub>, ''a''<sub>2</sub>, …, ''a''<sub>''n'' − 1</sub>, ''a''<sub>''n''</sub> + 1] | |||
then the nearest neighbour of {{sfrac|''p''|''q''}} in ''F<sub>q</sub>'' (which will be its neighbour with the larger denominator) has a continued fraction expansion | |||
:[0; ''a''<sub>1</sub>, ''a''<sub>2</sub>, …, ''a''<sub>''n''</sub>] | |||
and its other neighbour has a continued fraction expansion | |||
:[0; ''a''<sub>1</sub>, ''a''<sub>2</sub>, …, ''a''<sub>''n'' − 1</sub>] | |||
Thus {{sfrac|3|8}} has the two continued fraction expansions [0; 2, 1, 1, 1] and [0; 2, 1, 2], and its neighbours in ''F<sub>8</sub>'' are {{sfrac|2|5}}, which can be expanded as [0; 2, 1, 1]; and {{sfrac|1|3}}, which can be expanded as [0; 2, 1]. | |||
===Applications=== | |||
Farey sequences are very useful to find rational approximations of irrational numbers [http://nrich.maths.org/6596]. | |||
In physics systems featuring resonance phenomena Farey sequences provide a very elegant and efficient method to compute resonance locations in 1D <ref>A. Zhenhua Li, W.G. Harter, "Quantum Revivals of Morse Oscillators and Farey-Ford Geometry", arXiv:1308.4470v1 | |||
</ref> and 2D <ref>http://prst-ab.aps.org/abstract/PRSTAB/v17/i1/e014001</ref> | |||
===Ford circles=== | |||
[[File:Circumferències de Ford.svg|right|thumb|Ford circles.]] | |||
There is a connection between Farey sequence and [[Ford circle]]s. | |||
For every fraction ''p''/''q'' (in its lowest terms) there is a Ford circle C[''p''/''q''], which is the circle with radius 1/(2''q''<sup>2</sup>) and centre at (''p''/''q'', 1/(2''q''<sup>2</sup>)). Two Ford circles for different fractions are either [[Disjoint sets|disjoint]] or they are [[tangent]] to one another—two Ford circles never intersect. If 0 < ''p''/''q'' < 1 then the Ford circles that are tangent to C[''p''/''q''] are precisely the Ford circles for fractions that are neighbours of ''p''/''q'' in some Farey sequence. | |||
Thus ''C''[2/5] is tangent to ''C''[1/2], ''C''[1/3], ''C''[3/7], ''C''[3/8] etc. | |||
===Riemann hypothesis=== | |||
Farey sequences are used in two equivalent formulations of the [[Riemann hypothesis]]. Suppose the terms of <math>F_n</math> are <math>\{a_{k,n} : k = 0, 1, \ldots, m_n\}</math>. Define <math>d_{k,n} = a_{k,n} - k/m_n</math>, in other words <math>d_{k,n}</math> is the difference between the ''k''th term of the ''n''th Farey sequence, and the ''k''th member of a set of the same number of points, distributed evenly on the unit interval. In 1924 [[Jérôme Franel]]<ref>"Les suites de Farey et le théorème des nombres premiers", Gött. Nachr. 1924, 198-201</ref> proved that the statement | |||
: <math>\sum_{k=1}^{m_n} d_{k,n}^2 = \mathcal{O}(n^r)\quad\forall r>1</math> | |||
is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis, and then [[Edmund Landau]]<ref>"Bemerkungen zu der vorstehenden Abhandlung von Herrn Franel", Gött. Nachr. 1924, 202-206</ref> remarked (just after Franel's paper) that the statement | |||
: <math>\sum_{k=1}^{m_n} |d_{k,n}| = \mathcal{O} (n^r)\quad\forall r>1/2</math> | |||
is also equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis. | |||
==Next term== | |||
A surprisingly simple algorithm exists to generate the terms of ''F<sub>n</sub>'' in either traditional order (ascending) or non-traditional order (descending). The algorithm computes each successive entry in terms of the previous two entries using the mediant property given above. If {{sfrac|''a''|''b''}} and {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} are the two given entries, and {{sfrac|''p''|''q''}} is the unknown next entry, then {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} = {{sfrac|''a'' + ''p''|''b'' + ''q''}}. {{sfrac|''c''|''d''}} is in lowest terms, so there is an integer ''k'' such that ''kc'' = ''a'' + ''p'' and ''kd'' = ''b'' + ''q'', giving ''p'' = ''kc'' − ''a'' and ''q'' = ''kd'' − ''b''. The value of ''k'' must give a value of ''p''/''q'' which is as close as possible to ''c''/''d'', which implies that ''k'' must be as large as possible subject to ''kd'' − ''b'' = ''n'', so ''k'' is the greatest integer = {{sfrac|''n'' + ''b''|''d''}}. In other words, ''k'' = ''{{sfrac|n + b|d}}'', and | |||
:<math> p = \left\lfloor\frac{n+b}{d}\right\rfloor c - a</math> | |||
:<math> q = \left\lfloor\frac{n+b}{d}\right\rfloor d - b</math> | |||
This is implemented in [[Python (programming language)|Python]] as: | |||
<source lang="python"> | |||
def farey( n, asc=True ): | |||
"""Python function to print the nth Farey sequence, either ascending or descending.""" | |||
if asc: | |||
a, b, c, d = 0, 1, 1 , n # (*) | |||
else: | |||
a, b, c, d = 1, 1, n-1 , n # (*) | |||
print "%d/%d" % (a,b) | |||
while (asc and c <= n) or (not asc and a > 0): | |||
k = int((n + b)/d) | |||
a, b, c, d = c, d, k*c - a, k*d - b | |||
print "%d/%d" % (a,b) | |||
</source> | |||
Brute-force searches for solutions to [[Diophantine equation]]s in rationals can often take advantage of the Farey series (to search only reduced forms). The lines marked (*) can also be modified to include any two adjacent terms so as to generate terms only larger (or smaller) than a given term.<ref>Norman Routledge, "Computing Farey Series," ''[[The Mathematical Gazette]]'', Vol. ''' 92 ''' (No. 523), 55–62 (March 2008).</ref> | |||
==See also== | |||
* [[Stern-Brocot tree]] | |||
==References== | |||
<references/> | |||
==Further reading== | |||
* [[Allen Hatcher]], [http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/TN/TNpage.html Topology of Numbers] | |||
* [[Ronald L. Graham]], [[Donald E. Knuth]], and [[Oren Patashnik]], ''Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science'', 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1989); in particular, Sec. 4.5 (pp. 115–123), Bonus Problem 4.61 (pp. 150, 523–524), Sec. 4.9 (pp. 133–139), Sec. 9.3, Problem 9.3.6 (pp. 462–463). ISBN 0-201-55802-5. | |||
* Linas Vepstas. ''The Minkowski Question Mark, GL(2,Z), and the Modular Group.'' http://linas.org/math/chap-minkowski.pdf reviews the isomorphisms of the Stern-Brocot Tree. | |||
* Linas Vepstas. ''Symmetries of Period-Doubling Maps.'' http://linas.org/math/chap-takagi.pdf reviews connections between Farey Fractions and Fractals. | |||
* Scott B. Guthery, ''A Motif of Mathematics: History and Application of the Mediant and the Farey Sequence'', (Docent Press, Boston, 2010). ISBN 1-4538-1057-9. | |||
* Cristian Cobeli and Alexandru Zaharescu, ''The Haros-Farey Sequence at Two Hundred Years. A Survey'', Acta Univ. Apulensis Math. Inform. no. 5 (2003) 1–38, [http://www.emis.de/journals/AUA/acta5/survey3.ps_pages1-20.pdf pp. 1–20] [http://www.emis.de/journals/AUA/acta5/survey3.ps_pages21-38.pdf pp. 21–38] | |||
* A.O. Matveev, ''A Note on Boolean Lattices and Farey Sequences II'', [http://www.integers-ejcnt.org/vol8.html Integers 8(1), 2008, #A24] | |||
* A.O. Matveev, ''Neighboring Fractions in Farey Subsequences'', [http://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.1981.pdf arXiv:0801.1981] | |||
==External links== | |||
* Alexander Bogomolny. [http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/Farey.shtml Farey series] and [http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/Stern.shtml Stern-Brocot Tree] at [[Cut-the-Knot]] | |||
* {{springer|title=Farey series|id=p/f038230}} | |||
* {{MathWorld | urlname=Stern-BrocotTree | title=Stern-Brocot Tree}} | |||
* [http://oeis.org/A005728 Farey Sequence] from [http://oeis.org/ The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences]. | |||
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In mathematics, the Farey sequence of order n is the sequence of completely reduced fractions between 0 and 1 which, when in lowest terms, have denominators less than or equal to n, arranged in order of increasing size.
Each Farey sequence starts with the value 0, denoted by the fraction 0⁄1, and ends with the value 1, denoted by the fraction 1⁄1 (although some authors omit these terms).
A Farey sequence is sometimes called a Farey series, which is not strictly correct, because the terms are not summed.
Examples
The Farey sequences of orders 1 to 8 are :
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History
- The history of 'Farey series' is very curious — Hardy & Wright (1979) Chapter III[1]
- ... once again the man whose name was given to a mathematical relation was not the original discoverer so far as the records go. — Beiler (1964) Chapter XVI[2]
Farey sequences are named after the British geologist John Farey, Sr., whose letter about these sequences was published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1816. Farey conjectured, without offering proof, that each new term in a Farey sequence expansion is the mediant of its neighbours. Farey's letter was read by Cauchy, who provided a proof in his Exercises de mathématique, and attributed this result to Farey. In fact, another mathematician, Charles Haros, had published similar results in 1802 which were not known either to Farey or to Cauchy.[2] Thus it was a historical accident that linked Farey's name with these sequences. This is an example of Stigler's law of eponymy.
Properties
Sequence length
The Farey sequence of order n contains all of the members of the Farey sequences of lower orders. In particular Fn contains all of the members of Fn−1, and also contains an additional fraction for each number that is less than n and coprime to n. Thus F6 consists of F5 together with the fractions Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. and Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens.. The middle term of a Farey sequence Fn is always Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens., for n > 1.
From this, we can relate the lengths of Fn and Fn−1 using Euler's totient function φ(n) :
Using the fact that |F1| = 2, we can derive an expression for the length of Fn :
We also have:
where µ(d) is the number-theoretic Möbius function, and
by a Möbius inversion formula.
The asymptotic behaviour of |Fn| is :
Farey neighbours
Fractions which are neighbouring terms in any Farey sequence are known as a Farey pair and have the following properties.
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this is equivalent to saying that
- bc − ad = 1.
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The converse is also true. If
- bc − ad = 1
for positive integers a,b,c and d with a < b and c < d then Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. and Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. will be neighbours in the Farey sequence of order max(b,d).
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then Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. is the mediant of Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. and Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. — in other words,
This follows easily from the previous property, since if bp-aq = qc-pd = 1, then bp+pd = qc+aq, p(b+d)=q(a+c), Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. = Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens.
It follows that if Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. and Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. are neighbours in a Farey sequence then the first term that appears between them as the order of the Farey sequence is increased is
which first appears in the Farey sequence of order b + d.
Thus the first term to appear between Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. and Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. is Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens., which appears in F8.
The Stern-Brocot tree is a data structure showing how the sequence is built up from 0 (= Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens.) and 1 (= Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens.), by taking successive mediants.
Fractions that appear as neighbours in a Farey sequence have closely related continued fraction expansions. Every fraction has two continued fraction expansions — in one the final term is 1; in the other the final term is greater than 1. If Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens., which first appears in Farey sequence Fq, has continued fraction expansions
- [0; a1, a2, …, an − 1, an, 1]
- [0; a1, a2, …, an − 1, an + 1]
then the nearest neighbour of Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. in Fq (which will be its neighbour with the larger denominator) has a continued fraction expansion
- [0; a1, a2, …, an]
and its other neighbour has a continued fraction expansion
- [0; a1, a2, …, an − 1]
Thus Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. has the two continued fraction expansions [0; 2, 1, 1, 1] and [0; 2, 1, 2], and its neighbours in F8 are Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens., which can be expanded as [0; 2, 1, 1]; and Electrical Engineer Stephan from Merrickville-Wolford, likes to spend time body building, property developers ec in singapore singapore and storytelling. Gets inspiration through travel and just spent 6 days at Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens., which can be expanded as [0; 2, 1].
Applications
Farey sequences are very useful to find rational approximations of irrational numbers [1].
In physics systems featuring resonance phenomena Farey sequences provide a very elegant and efficient method to compute resonance locations in 1D [3] and 2D [4]
Ford circles
There is a connection between Farey sequence and Ford circles.
For every fraction p/q (in its lowest terms) there is a Ford circle C[p/q], which is the circle with radius 1/(2q2) and centre at (p/q, 1/(2q2)). Two Ford circles for different fractions are either disjoint or they are tangent to one another—two Ford circles never intersect. If 0 < p/q < 1 then the Ford circles that are tangent to C[p/q] are precisely the Ford circles for fractions that are neighbours of p/q in some Farey sequence.
Thus C[2/5] is tangent to C[1/2], C[1/3], C[3/7], C[3/8] etc.
Riemann hypothesis
Farey sequences are used in two equivalent formulations of the Riemann hypothesis. Suppose the terms of are . Define , in other words is the difference between the kth term of the nth Farey sequence, and the kth member of a set of the same number of points, distributed evenly on the unit interval. In 1924 Jérôme Franel[5] proved that the statement
is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis, and then Edmund Landau[6] remarked (just after Franel's paper) that the statement
is also equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis.
Next term
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This is implemented in Python as:
def farey( n, asc=True ):
"""Python function to print the nth Farey sequence, either ascending or descending."""
if asc:
a, b, c, d = 0, 1, 1 , n # (*)
else:
a, b, c, d = 1, 1, n-1 , n # (*)
print "%d/%d" % (a,b)
while (asc and c <= n) or (not asc and a > 0):
k = int((n + b)/d)
a, b, c, d = c, d, k*c - a, k*d - b
print "%d/%d" % (a,b)
Brute-force searches for solutions to Diophantine equations in rationals can often take advantage of the Farey series (to search only reduced forms). The lines marked (*) can also be modified to include any two adjacent terms so as to generate terms only larger (or smaller) than a given term.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ Hardy, G.H. & Wright, E.M. (1979) An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers (Fifth Edition). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-853171-0
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Beiler, Albert H. (1964) Recreations in the Theory of Numbers (Second Edition). Dover. ISBN 0-486-21096-0. Cited in Farey Series, A Story at Cut-the-Knot
- ↑ A. Zhenhua Li, W.G. Harter, "Quantum Revivals of Morse Oscillators and Farey-Ford Geometry", arXiv:1308.4470v1
- ↑ http://prst-ab.aps.org/abstract/PRSTAB/v17/i1/e014001
- ↑ "Les suites de Farey et le théorème des nombres premiers", Gött. Nachr. 1924, 198-201
- ↑ "Bemerkungen zu der vorstehenden Abhandlung von Herrn Franel", Gött. Nachr. 1924, 202-206
- ↑ Norman Routledge, "Computing Farey Series," The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 92 (No. 523), 55–62 (March 2008).
Further reading
- Allen Hatcher, Topology of Numbers
- Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1989); in particular, Sec. 4.5 (pp. 115–123), Bonus Problem 4.61 (pp. 150, 523–524), Sec. 4.9 (pp. 133–139), Sec. 9.3, Problem 9.3.6 (pp. 462–463). ISBN 0-201-55802-5.
- Linas Vepstas. The Minkowski Question Mark, GL(2,Z), and the Modular Group. http://linas.org/math/chap-minkowski.pdf reviews the isomorphisms of the Stern-Brocot Tree.
- Linas Vepstas. Symmetries of Period-Doubling Maps. http://linas.org/math/chap-takagi.pdf reviews connections between Farey Fractions and Fractals.
- Scott B. Guthery, A Motif of Mathematics: History and Application of the Mediant and the Farey Sequence, (Docent Press, Boston, 2010). ISBN 1-4538-1057-9.
- Cristian Cobeli and Alexandru Zaharescu, The Haros-Farey Sequence at Two Hundred Years. A Survey, Acta Univ. Apulensis Math. Inform. no. 5 (2003) 1–38, pp. 1–20 pp. 21–38
- A.O. Matveev, A Note on Boolean Lattices and Farey Sequences II, Integers 8(1), 2008, #A24
- A.O. Matveev, Neighboring Fractions in Farey Subsequences, arXiv:0801.1981
External links
- Alexander Bogomolny. Farey series and Stern-Brocot Tree at Cut-the-Knot
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