Conjecture on even-period Browkin II expansions of square roots

Let hZh\in\mathbb{Z} be even. Consider the pp-adic continued fraction expansion produced by the Browkin II algorithm. Even-period Browkin II conjecture. For every even hZh\in\mathbb{Z}, there exist infinitely many nonsquare integers DD such that the Browkin II continued fraction expansion of D\sqrt{D} is periodic with period length hh. The paper proves the existence of infinitely many examples for period length 44 and recalls Browkin's result for period length 22; experimental evidence suggests that the result may extend to all even period lengths, but the general claim remains open.

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Nadir Murru, Giuliano Romeo and Giordano Santilli, “On the periodicity of an algorithm for p-adic continued fractions”, arXiv:2201.12019 (2022).

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