Jacobi symbols, ambiguous ideals, and continued fractions

R. A. Mollin

Acta Arithmetica (1998)

  • Volume: 85, Issue: 4, page 331-349
  • ISSN: 0065-1036

Abstract

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The purpose of this paper is to generalize some seminal results in the literature concerning the interrelationships between Legendre symbols and continued fractions. We introduce the power of ideal theory into the arena. This allows significant improvements over the existing results via the infrastructure of real quadratic fields.

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R. A. Mollin. "Jacobi symbols, ambiguous ideals, and continued fractions." Acta Arithmetica 85.4 (1998): 331-349. <http://eudml.org/doc/207173>.

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References

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  1. [1] P. Chowla and S. Chowla, Problems on periodic simple continued fractions, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 69 (1972), 3745. Zbl0247.10019
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  3. [3] C. Friesen, Legendre symbols and continued fractions, Acta Arith. 59 (1991), 365-379. Zbl0706.11004
  4. [4] R. A. Mollin, Quadratics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1995. 
  5. [5] A. Schinzel, On two conjectures of P. Chowla and S. Chowla concerning continued fractions, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. 98 (1974), 111-117. Zbl0281.10013

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