Conjecture on even-period Browkin II expansions of square roots
Let be even. Consider the -adic continued fraction expansion produced by the Browkin II algorithm. Even-period Browkin II conjecture. For every even , there exist infinitely many nonsquare integers such that the Browkin II continued fraction expansion of is periodic with period length . The paper proves the existence of infinitely many examples for period length and recalls Browkin's result for period length ; experimental evidence suggests that the result may extend to all even period lengths, but the general claim remains open.
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Primary source
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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