Folklore conjecture on algebraic badly approximable numbers
Folklore conjecture on algebraic badly approximable numbers
An irrational real number is badly approximable if its continued-fraction partial quotients are bounded; write for the set of badly approximable numbers. An algebraic irrational is an irrational algebraic number.
Folklore conjecture. The only algebraic irrationals that belong to are the quadratic irrationals.
By the continued-fraction characterization, this predicts that every algebraic irrational of degree at least three has unbounded partial quotients. The problem remains open.
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Victor Beresnevich, Felipe Ramírez and Sanju Velani, “Metric Diophantine Approximation: aspects of recent work”, arXiv:1601.01948 (2016).
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