Periodic karyon expansions of cubic irrationals in continued fractions (Q2399703)

For a wide class of cubic irrationalities \(\alpha\) it is proved that there exist third-order linear recurrent sequences \(\{Q^a\}\), \(\{R_1^a\}\), and \(\{R_2^a\}\) such that \(|Q^a\alpha^2-R_1^a|+|Q^a\alpha-R_2^a|\leq C\rho^a.\) Construction of the sequences and the value of \(\rho\) is effective. The proof is based on the author's earlier theory of exchanged toric tilings (previously this theory was used for the construction of bounded remainder sets and for some generalizations of Lagrange's theorem). Unfortunately, the author did not clearly show for which irrationalities we have \(\rho<1\). Nevertheless, he gives some nontrivial examples when the method works. If \(\alpha\) is a cubic Pisot unit and the corresponding cubic field is not totally real, similar results were obtained earlier by \textit{P. Hubert} and \textit{A. Messaoudi} [Acta Arith. 124, No. 1, 1--15 (2006; Zbl 1116.28009)] and by \textit{N. Chevallier} [J. Théor. Nombres Bordx. 14, No. 2, 403--414 (2002; Zbl 1071.11043); Mosc. J. Comb. Number Theory 3, No. 1, 3--56 (2013; Zbl 1305.11059)].