The even-period conjecture for Browkin II continued fractions
The even-period conjecture for Browkin II continued fractions
Let be a prime, and let be not a perfect square. A Browkin II continued fraction is a continued fraction generated by Browkin's second -adic continued-fraction algorithm. The Browkin II even-period conjecture. For every even integer , there exist infinitely many that are not perfect squares such that the Browkin II continued fraction of is periodic with period length . This is the analogue for Browkin II of Bedocchi's conjecture for Browkin I, extending the known existence of infinitely many examples with period length ; the source records it as a conjecture supported by experimental computations.
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Giuliano Romeo, “Continued fractions in the field of p-adic numbers”, arXiv:2306.14837 (2023).
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