On the evolution of continued fractions in a fixed quadratic field

DOI10.1007/S11854-018-0012-4MaRDI QIDQ1782084zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Menny Aka, Uri Shapira

Publication date 18 September 2018

Published in Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1280

zbMATH Keywords

fixed quadratic fieldGauss-Kuzmin measuregrowth rate of periodperiod of continued fraction expansionsequences of quadratic irrationalsstatistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Metric theory of continued fractions (11K50) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44)

Abstract: We prove that the statistics of the period of the continued fraction expansion of certain sequences of quadratic irrationals from a fixed quadratic field approach the `normal' statistics given by the Gauss-Kuzmin measure. As a by-product, the growth rate of the period is analyzed and, for example, it is shown that for a fixed integer $k$ and a quadratic irrational $al$, the length of the period of the continued fraction expansion of $k^{n}al$ equals $c{k}^n+o(k^{(1-frac116)n})$ for some positive constant $c$. This improves results of Cohn, Lagarias, and Grisel, and settles a conjecture of Hickerson. The results are derived from the main theorem of the paper, which establishes an equidistribution result regarding single periodic geodesics along certain paths in the Hecke graph. The results are effective and give rates of convergence and the main tools are spectral gap (effective decay of matrix coefficients) and dynamical analysis on $S$-arithmetic homogeneous spaces.

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