Alternating Sums of Elements of Continued Fractions and the Minkowski Question Mark Function
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The paper considers the function A(t) (0 ≤ t ≤ 1), related to the distribution of alternating sums of elements of continued fractions. The function A(t) possesses many properties similar to those of the Minkowski function ?(t). In particular, A(t) is continuous, satisfies similar functional equations, and A′(t) = 0 almost everywhere with respect to the Lebesgue measure. However, unlike ?(t), the function A(t) is not monotonically increasing. Moreover, on any subinterval of [1, 0], it has a sharp extremum.
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