Equality of lower and upper accumulation exponents for Pisot numbers

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Let ζ\zeta be a Pisot number and let α\alpha be real. The quantities σ‾(α,ζ)\underline{\sigma}(\alpha,\zeta) and σ‾(α,ζ)\overline{\sigma}(\alpha,\zeta) denote the lower and upper rates of accumulation of αζn\alpha\zeta^n modulo 11 to 00. Equality conjecture. For every such α\alpha and ζ\zeta, one has

σ‾(α,ζ)=σ‾(α,ζ).\underline{\sigma}(\alpha,\zeta)=\overline{\sigma}(\alpha,\zeta).

The preceding results establish bounds for these exponents, including σ‾(α,ζ)=0\underline{\sigma}(\alpha,\zeta)=0 when α\alpha is real and outside Q(ζ)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta). The conjecture asserts that the lower and upper rates nevertheless always coincide, and the paper gives no proof of this equality.

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Johannes Schleischitz, “On the rate of accumulation of αζ^n mod 1 to 0”, arXiv:1401.7588 (2014).

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