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On the length of the continued fraction for values of quotients of power sums

Pietro Corvaja, Umberto Zannier (2005)

Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux

Generalizing a result of Pourchet, we show that, if α , β are power sums over satisfying suitable necessary assumptions, the length of the continued fraction for α ( n ) / β ( n ) tends to infinity as n . This will be derived from a uniform Thue-type inequality for the rational approximations to the rational numbers α ( n ) / β ( n ) , n .

On the multiples of a badly approximable vector

Yann Bugeaud (2015)

Acta Arithmetica

Let d be a positive integer and α a real algebraic number of degree d + 1. Set α ̲ : = ( α , α ² , . . . , α d ) . It is well-known that c ( α ̲ ) : = l i m i n f q q 1 / d · | | q α ̲ | | > 0 , where ||·|| denotes the distance to the nearest integer. Furthermore, c ( α ̲ ) n - 1 / d c ( n α ̲ ) n c ( α ̲ ) for any integer n ≥ 1. Our main result asserts that there exists a real number C, depending only on α, such that c ( n α ̲ ) C n - 1 / d for any integer n ≥ 1.

On the period length of some special continued fractions

R. A. Mollin, H. C. Williams (1992)

Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux

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.

Palindromic continued fractions

Boris Adamczewski, Yann Bugeaud (2007)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

In the present work, we investigate real numbers whose sequence of partial quotients enjoys some combinatorial properties involving the notion of palindrome. We provide three new transendence criteria, that apply to a broad class of continued fraction expansions, including expansions with unbounded partial quotients. Their proofs heavily depend on the Schmidt Subspace Theorem.

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