Geodesic Gaussian integer continued fractions (Q2195011)

This article deals with geodesic continued fractions with Gaussian integer coefficients. The author provides the Farey graph which is modeled by the realization in \(H^3\) where Farey neighbors are joined by hyperbolic geodesics as seen in the Farey tessellation of \(H^3\) by Farey octahedrons. The author introduces the natural distance on the set of the vertices of the Farey graph and study the structure of the Farey neighbourhoods of reduced Gaussian rational numbers (e.g., the vertices of the Farey graph). The conditions for a path to be a geodesic path are shown. Finally the conditions for the existence of an infinite geodesic Gaussian integer continued fraction and further extension to integer quaternion entries are discussed.