Patterns of continued fractions for the analogues of e and related numbers in the function field case

DOI10.1006/JNTH.1997.2134MaRDI QIDQ1366673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dinesh S. Thakur

Publication date 22 September 1997

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jnth.1997.2134

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic 2computational resultscontinued fraction expansionfunction fieldvalues of the Carlitz-Drinfeld exponential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Drinfel'd modules; higher-dimensional motives, etc. (11G09) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58)

Review text

The author variously details and proves, and provides supporting evidence for computational results on the continued fraction expansion of appropriate values of the Carlitz-Drinfeld exponential \(e(z)\) in the case of characteristic \(q=2\), adding to his earlier results [\textit{D. Thakur}, J. Number Theory 41, 150-155 (1992; Zbl 0754.11019) and ibid. 59, 248-261 (1966; Zbl 0866.11004)]. There is here a very interesting analogy with the numerical case, where, it seems, there are highly structured Hurwitz continued fraction expansions essentially only for \(\exp(a/b)\) if \(a\) is \(1\), or \(2\); for that and related musings see, for a recent example, the reviewer's note [\textit{A. J. van der Poorten}, Nieuw Arch. Wiskd. 14, 221-230 (1996; Zbl 0862.11044)]. The case \(q=2\), explored here, is rather more complicated than the cases dealt with completely by the author in the previous papers cited. Presumably, it is in some sense a degenerate case of that work; a description in those terms might provide further insight. The present, rather interesting and readable paper is not yet complete and -- as the author invites his readers -- well deserves further study, simplification and extension.

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Cited in

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• Continued fraction for the exponential for \(\mathbb{F}_ q[T]\)
• Exponential and continued fractions
• Diophantine approximation exponents and continued fractions for algebraic power series
• Higher Diophantine approximation exponents and continued fraction symmetries for function fields
• Subword complexity and finite characteristic numbers
• On the continued fraction expansions of some transcendental series in \(\mathbb{F}_q((T^{-1}))\)
• A transcendence criterion for continued fractions in \(\mathbb K_p((X^{-1}))\)

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