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

Let d3d\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 (d1)(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 (d1)(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.

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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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