Continued fractions of certain Mahler functions

Abstract: We investigate the continued fraction expansion of the infinite products

g (x) = x^{- 1} p r o d_{t = 0}^{i} n f t y P (x^{- d^{t}})

where polynomials

P (x)

satisfy

P (0) = 1

and

d e g (P) < d

. We construct relations between partial quotients of

g (x)

which can be used to get recurrent formulae for them. We provide that formulae for the cases

d = 2

and

d = 3

. As an application, we prove that for

P (x) = 1 + u x

where

u

is an arbitrary rational number except 0 and 1, and for any integer

b

with

| b | > 1

such that

g (b) e q 0

the irrationality exponent of

g (b)

equals two. In the case

d = 3

we provide a partial analogue of the last result with several collections of polynomials

P (x)

giving the irrationality exponent of

g (b)

strictly bigger than two.

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