Noble-number conjecture for the local minima of the Brjuno function
Noble-number conjecture for the local minima of the Brjuno function
Let denote the classical Brjuno function, let be the set of its local minima, and let be the set of noble numbers, namely the numbers whose regular continued fraction expansion is of the form . Local-minima conjecture.
The global minimum of is known to be attained at the golden number, and the cited corollary gives the corresponding lower bound on . Numerical evidence suggests that all local minima, not only these known global-minimum examples, are precisely the noble numbers.
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Ayreena Bakhtawar, Carlo Carminati and Stefano Marmi, “Global and local minima of α-Brjuno functions”, arXiv:2401.17679 (2025).
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