Cassels–Swinnerton-Dyer's conjecture on periodic multidimensional continued fractions

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Let d⩾3d\geqslant3 and let Λ\Lambda be an irrational full-rank lattice in Rd\mathbb{R}^d. Let K\mathcal{K} be one of the 2n2^n Klein polyhedra of Λ\Lambda. The facets and edge stars of K\mathcal{K} have determinants as defined in the source, and (d−1)(d-1)-periodicity refers to periodicity of the boundary's combinatorial structure together with these determinants.

Cassels–Swinnerton-Dyer's conjecture. The following are equivalent:

  1. The facets and the edge stars of the vertices of K\mathcal{K} have bounded determinants, bounded by a common constant.
  2. The combinatorial structure of the boundary of K\mathcal{K}, equipped with the determinants of facets and edge stars of vertices, is (d−1)(d-1)-periodic.

This is presented as a reformulation of the positive-norm-minimum conjecture: bounded multidimensional analogues of partial quotients should imply periodicity of the associated multidimensional continued fraction. The supplied status is unknown, so the database records it as open.

References

Primary source

Oleg N. German, “Geometry of Diophantine exponents”, arXiv:2210.16553 (2023).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1908.03139, arXiv:1109.6093.

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