Hankel continued fraction and its applications

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2016.08.013zbMATH Open1346.05002arXiv1406.1593OpenAlexW2962801931MaRDI QIDQ323670FDOQ323670

Guo-Niu Han

Publication date: 10 October 2016

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Hankel determinants of a given power series $f$ can be evaluated by using the Jacobi continued fraction expansion of $f$. However the existence of the Jacobi continued fraction needs that all Hankel determinants of $f$ are nonzero. We introduce {it Hankel continued fraction}, whose existene and unicity are guaranteed without any condition for the power series $f$. The Hankel determinants can also be evaluated by using the Hankel continued fraction. It is well known that the continued fraction expansion of a quadratic irrational number is ultimately periodic. We prove a similar result for power series. If a power series $f$ over a finite field satisfies a quadratic functional equation, then the Hankel continued fraction is ultimately periodic. As an application, we derive the Hankel determinants of several automatic sequences, in particular, the regular paperfolding sequence. Thus we provide an automatic proof of a result obtained by Guo, Wu and Wen, which was conjectured by Coons-Vrbik.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1593

zbMATH Keywords

automatic sequenceperiodicityThue-Morse sequenceirrationality exponentautomatic proofHankel continued fractionHankel determinantinteger sequenceregular paperfolding sequencestern sequenceStieltjes algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Matrices, determinants in number theory (11C20) Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Matrices over special rings (quaternions, finite fields, etc.) (15B33) Continued fractions (11A55) Measures of irrationality and of transcendence (11J82) Continued fractions; complex-analytic aspects (30B70) Sequences (mod (m)) (11B50) Automata sequences (11B85) Finite fields and commutative rings (number-theoretic aspects) (11T99) Continued fraction calculations (number-theoretic aspects) (11Y65) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to linear algebra (15-04) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to combinatorics (05-04)

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