Counting exceptional points for rational numbers associated to the Fibonacci sequence

DOI10.1007/S10998-017-0189-9MaRDI QIDQ1705828zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles L. Samuels

Publication date 16 March 2018

Published in Periodica Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02081

zbMATH Keywords

Fibonacci numbersMahler measuremetric Mahler measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) PV-numbers and generalizations; other special algebraic numbers; Mahler measure (11R06)

Abstract: If $alpha$ is a non-zero algebraic number, we let $m(alpha)$ denote the Mahler measure of the minimal polynomial of $alpha$ over $mathbbZ$. A series of articles by Dubickas and Smyth, and later by the author, develop a modified version of the Mahler measure called the $t$-metric Mahler measure, denoted $m_t(alpha)$. For fixed $$, the map $tmapsto{m}_t(alpha)$ is continuous, and moreover, is infinitely differentiable at all but finitely many points, called {it exceptional points} for $alpha$. It remains open to determine whether there is a sequence of elements $$ such that the number of exceptional points for $alph{a}_n$ tends to $infty$ as $noinfty$. We utilize a connection with the Fibonacci sequence to formulate a conjecture on the $t$-metric Mahler measures. If the conjecture is true, we prove that it is best possible and that it implies the the existence of rational numbers with as many exceptional points as we like. Finally, with some computational assistance, we resolve various special cases of the conjecture that constitute improvements to earlier results.

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