Irrationality exponents of generalized Hone series (Q2197714)

Let \((x_n)_{n\geq 1}\) be an increasing sequence of integers and \((y_n)_{n\geq 1}\) be a sequence of non-zero integers such that \(x_1>y_1\geq 1\) and \(\frac 1{x_n}(\frac{x_{n+2}x_n}{x_{n+1}^2}-\frac{y_{n+2}y_n}{y_{n+1}^2})\in\mathbb Z_{>0}\) for all \(n\geq 0\). Assume that \(\log \mid y_{n+2}\mid =o(\log x_n)\) and \(\liminf_{n\to\infty}\frac{\log x_{n+1}}{\log x_n}>2\). Then the authors prove that the series \(X=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{y_n}{x_n}\) is convergent and the irrationality measure exponent is \[ \mu(X)=\max \Biggl(\limsup_{n\to\infty}\frac{\log x_{n+1}}{\log x_n}, 2+\frac 1{\displaystyle\liminf_{n\to\infty}\frac{\log x_{n+1}}{\log x_n}-1}\Biggr). \] The proof is based on transforming this series to suitable continued fraction.