%0 Journal Article %T Cross sections for geodesic flows and \alpha-continued fractions %+ Institut de mathématiques de Luminy (IML) %+ Oregon State University (OSU) %A Arnoux, Pierre %A Schmidt, Thomas A. %Z 20 pages, 2 figures %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0951-7715 %J Nonlinearity %I IOP Publishing %V 26 %N 3 %8 2013-03 %D 2013 %Z 1207.7299 %R 10.1088/0951-7715/26/3/711 %Z Mathematics [math]/Dynamical Systems [math.DS] %Z Mathematics [math]/Number Theory [math.NT]Journal articles %X We adjust Arnoux's coding, in terms of regular continued fractions, of the geodesic flow on the modular surface to give a cross section on which the return map is a double cover of the natural extension for the \alpha-continued fractions, for each $\alpha$ in (0,1]. The argument is sufficiently robust to apply to the Rosen continued fractions and their recently introduced \alpha-variants. %G English %L hal-01265582 %U https://hal.science/hal-01265582 %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-AMU %~ IML %~ I2M %~ TDS-MACS