The 2-adic Littlewood conjecture in continued-fraction form

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For an irrational real number α=[a0;a1,a2,]\alpha=[a_0;a_1,a_2,\ldots], let M(α)=supn1an(α)M(\alpha)=\sup_{n\geq 1}a_n(\alpha), where an(α)a_n(\alpha) are its continued-fraction partial quotients. The 2-adic Littlewood conjecture in continued-fraction form. For every irrational real α\alpha, one has

supk0M(2kα)=.\sup_{k\geq 0}M(2^k\alpha)=\infty.

The paper explains that this is equivalent to the pp-adic Littlewood conjecture for p=2p=2: a counterexample to the latter exists exactly when the displayed supremum is finite. The supplied text gives no resolution of this formulation.

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Dinis Vitorino and Ingrid Vukusic, “Some Bounds Related to the 2-adic Littlewood Conjecture”, arXiv:2506.04110 (2025).

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