Markov spectrum near Freiman's isolated points in M ∖ L

Freiman proved in 1968 that the Lagrange and Markov spectra do not coincide by exhibiting a countable infinite collection F of isolated points of the Markov spectrum which do not belong the Lagrange spectrum. In this paper, we describe the structure of the elements of the Markov spectrum in the largest interval (c_∞,C_∞) containing F and avoiding the Lagrange spectrum. In particular, we compute the smallest known element f of M∖L, and we show that the Hausdorff dimension of the portion of the Markov spectrum between c_∞ and C_∞ is >0.2628.