Infinitely many quadratic irrationals with every admissible even BCF period

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Let pp be a prime and let t≥1t\geq1, excluding the case p=3p=3, t=1t=1. A Browkin continued fraction (BCF) is a pp-adic continued fraction expansion, and Y\mathcal{Y} is the set of allowed partial quotients. Even-period existence conjecture. There are infinitely many integers p2kmp^{2k}m, with k≥1k\geq1, m∈Z∖pZm\in\mathbb{Z}\setminus p\mathbb{Z} non-square, such that α=1pkm\alpha=\frac1{p^k\sqrt m} has a BCF of the form

[a0,a1,…,at−1,at,at−1,…,a1,2a0‾],[a_0,\overline{a_1,\ldots,a_{t-1},a_t,a_{t-1},\ldots,a_1,2a_0}],

and at=2ca_t=2c with c∈Yc\in\mathcal{Y}. In particular, there are infinitely many b∈Zb\in\mathbb{Z} such that the BCF expansion of b\sqrt b has period 2t2t. 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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Laura Capuano, Nadir Murru and Lea Terracini, “On periodicity of p-adic Browkin continued fractions”, arXiv:2010.07364 (2020).

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