Arithmetic properties of the solutions of a class of functional equations.
We establish new combinatorial transcendence criteria for continued fraction expansions. Let be an algebraic number of degree at least three. One of our criteria implies that the sequence of partial quotients of is not ‘too simple’ (in a suitable sense) and cannot be generated by a finite automaton.
The main purpose of this work is to present new families of transcendental continued fractions with bounded partial quotients. Our results are derived thanks to combinatorial transcendence criteria recently obtained by the first two authors in [3].