Infinitely many quadratic irrationals with every admissible even BCF period
Let be a prime and let , excluding the case , . A Browkin continued fraction (BCF) is a -adic continued fraction expansion, and is the set of allowed partial quotients. Even-period existence conjecture. There are infinitely many integers , with , non-square, such that has a BCF of the form
and with . In particular, there are infinitely many such that the BCF expansion of has period . The claim is stated as a consequence that would follow from any of the preceding nice-sequence assertions; its supplied status is resolved, with the source attributing the relevant case to Bedocchi (1989).
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Primary source
Laura Capuano, Nadir Murru and Lea Terracini, “On periodicity of p-adic Browkin continued fractions”, arXiv:2010.07364 (2020).
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