Finite-family Hermite matrix conjecture for cubic irrational pairs

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Let \triangle be the domain of pairs of real numbers used by the multidimensional continued fraction algorithms, and let a finite family of such algorithms determine a corresponding Hermite matrix whose rows are the associated sequences of non-negative integers. A pair (α,β)(\alpha,\beta)\in\triangle is in the same cubic number field when α\alpha and β\beta belong to a common cubic number field.

Finite-family Hermite matrix conjecture. There is a family of multidimensional continued fractions spanned by finitely many multidimensional continued fraction algorithms such that

(α,β) are in the same cubic number field(\alpha,\beta)\text{ are in the same cubic number field}

if and only if some row of the corresponding Hermite matrix is eventually periodic.

This is presented as a reformulation of a conjecture attributed to Karpenkov and as a proposed best-possible form of the Hermite problem: periodicity in a suitable finite family of algorithms should characterize pairs of reals lying in the same cubic number field. The supplied text does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Krishna Dasaratha, Laure Flapan, Thomas Garrity, Chansoo Lee, Cornelia Mihaila, Nicholas Neumann-Chun, Sarah Peluse and Matthew Stoffregen, “Cubic Irrationals and Periodicity via a Family of Multi-dimensional Continued Fraction Algorithms”, arXiv:1208.4244 (2014).

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