Some periodic continued fraction expansions and fundamental units of quadratic orders (Q1813992)

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Some periodic continued fraction expansions and fundamental units of quadratic orders
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    Some periodic continued fraction expansions and fundamental units of quadratic orders (English)
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    25 June 1992
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    Let \(D\) be a discriminant of a quadratic number field and let \(\omega_ D=(1+\sqrt{D})/2\) if \(D\equiv 1\pmod 4\) and \(\omega_ D=\sqrt{D}/2\) otherwise. The author computes the period length of the continued fraction of \(\omega_ D\) and the fundamental unit of \(\mathbb{Z}[\omega_ D]\) in the case when \(D=(\ell p^ k+\lambda c)^ 2+4\mu p^ k q\), where \(k\geq 2\), \(q\geq 1\), \(\ell\), \(q\) are integers, \(\lambda,\mu=\pm1\), \(p=c\ell+\lambda\mu\geq 2\) and \(q\) divides \(c\). This covers several special cases considered earlier by several other authors [\textit{L. Bernstein}, J. Number Theory 8, 446--491 (1976; Zbl 0352.10002); \textit{M. D. Hendy}, Math. Comput. 28, 267--277 (1974; Zbl 0275.12007); \textit{C. Levesque}, J. Math. Phys. Sci. 22, No. 1, 11--44 (1988; Zbl 0645.10010); \textit{C. Levesque} and \textit{G. Rhin}, Util. Math. 30, 79--107 (1986; Zbl 0615.10014); \textit{M. Nyberg}, Norsk Mat. Tidsskr. 31, 95--99 (1949; Zbl 0040.30706)].
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    period length
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    continued fraction
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    fundamental unit
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