On the continued fractions of quadratic surds
Generalizing a result of Pourchet, we show that, if are power sums over satisfying suitable necessary assumptions, the length of the continued fraction for tends to infinity as . This will be derived from a uniform Thue-type inequality for the rational approximations to the rational numbers , .
We investigate and refine a device which we introduced in [3] for the study of continued fractions. This allows us to more easily compute the period lengths of certain continued fractions and it can be used to suggest some aspects of the cycle structure (see [1]) within the period of certain continued fractions related to underlying real quadratic fields.
We study a family of quasi periodic -adic Ruban continued fractions in the -adic field and we give a criterion of a quadratic or transcendental -adic number which based on the -adic version of the subspace theorem due to Schlickewei.
This paper is devoted to a systematic study of a class of binary trees encoding the structure of rational numbers both from arithmetic and dynamical point of view. The paper is divided into three parts. The first one is mainly expository and consists in a critical review of rather standard topics such as Stern-Brocot and Farey trees and their connections with continued fraction expansion and the question mark function. In the second part we introduce two classes of (invertible and non-invertible)...
We prove that, for any unit in a real number field of degree , there exits only a finite number of n-tuples in which have a purely periodic expansion by the Jacobi-Perron algorithm. This generalizes the case of continued fractions for . For we give an explicit algorithm to compute all these pairs.
We investigate infinite families of integral quadratic polynomials {fk (X)} k∈N and show that, for a fixed k ∈ N and arbitrary X ∈ N, the period length of the simple continued fraction expansion of √fk (X) is constant. Furthermore, we show that the period lengths of √fk (X) go to infinity with k. For each member of the families involved, we show how to determine, in an easy fashion, the fundamental unit of the underlying quadratic field. We also demonstrate how the simple continued fraction ex-...