Existence conjecture for nice Browkin continued fractions

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Let pp be an odd prime, let Y\mathcal{Y} denote the set used in the paper for the allowed partial quotients, and let a nice BCF be a finite Browkin continued fraction satisfying the niceness conditions defined earlier in the paper. Existence conjecture for nice BCFs. For every integer t≥1t\geq 1, there exists a nice BCF of length tt, except when t=1t=1 and p=3p=3. Nice sequences are the input to the paper's construction of infinitely many quadratic irrationals with periodic BCF expansions of period 2t2t. The statement is marked resolved in the supplied status evidence: the exceptional t=1t=1 case was proved in Bedocchi (1989).

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Laura Capuano, Nadir Murru and Lea Terracini, “On periodicity of p-adic Browkin continued fractions”, arXiv:2010.07364 (2020).

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