We consider the values concerning $$ℳ(\theta ,\phi )=\underset{\left|q\right|\to \infty }{lim\; inf}\left|q\right|\left|\right|q^{\theta }-\phi \left|\right|$$ where the continued fraction expansion of $\theta$ has a quasi-periodic form. In particular, we treat the cases so that each quasi-periodic form includes no constant. Furthermore, we give some general conditions satisfying $ℳ(\theta ,\phi )=0$.

We make more accessible a neglected simple continued fraction based algorithm due to Lagrange, for deciding the solubility of $a{x}^2+bxy+c{y}^2=N$ in relatively prime integers $x,y$, where $N\ne 0$, gcd$(a,b,c)=\text{gcd}(a,N)=1\text{et}D=b^2-4ac\>0$ is not a perfect square. In the case of solubility, solutions with least positive y, from each equivalence class, are also constructed. Our paper is a generalisation of an earlier paper by the author on the equation $x^2-D{y}^2=N$. As in that paper, we use a lemma on unimodular matrices that gives a much simpler proof than Lagrange’s...

Let $\xi =[a_0;a_1,a_2,\cdots ,a_i,\cdots ]$ be an irrational number in simple continued fraction expansion, $p_i/q_i=[a_0;a_1,a_2,\cdots ,a_i]$, $M_i=q_i^2|\xi -p_i/q_i|$. In this note we find a function $G(R,r)$ such that $$\begin{array}{ccc}& M_{n+1}<R\text{and}{M}_{n-1}<r\text{imply}{M}_n>G(R,r),\hfill & \hfill M_{n+1}>R\text{and}{M}_{n-1}>r\text{imply}{M}_n<G(R,r).\end{array}$$ Together with a result the author obtained, this shows that to find two best approximation functions $\tilde{H}(R,r)$ and $\tilde{L}(R,r)$ is a well-posed problem. This problem has not been solved yet.

We show that for all integers $m$ and $n$ there are no non-trivial solutions of Thue equation $$x^4-2mn{x}^{3}y+2\left(m^2-n^2+1\right)x^2{y}^2+2mnx{y}^3+y^4=1,$$ satisfying the additional condition $gcd(xy,mn)=1$.

Let $q$ be a complex number, $m$ be a positive rational integer and $l_m\left(q\right)=inf\{\left|P\left(q\right)\right|,P\in {\mathbb{Z}}_m\left[X\right],P\left(q\right)\ne 0\}$, where ${\mathbb{Z}}_m\left[X\right]$ denotes the set of polynomials with rational integer coefficients of absolute value $\le m$. We determine in this note the maximum of the quantities $l_m\left(q\right)$ when $q$ runs through the interval $]m,m+1[$. We also show that if $q$ is a non-real number of modulus $\&gt;1$, then $q$ is a complex Pisot number if and only if $l_m\left(q\right)\&gt;0$ for all $m$.