On the Distribution of Sequences Connected with Good Lattice Points.
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 , .
Let d be a positive integer and α a real algebraic number of degree d + 1. Set . It is well-known that , where ||·|| denotes the distance to the nearest integer. Furthermore, for any integer n ≥ 1. Our main result asserts that there exists a real number C, depending only on α, such that for any integer n ≥ 1.
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.
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.