The unreasonable effectualness of continued function expansions

DOI10.1017/S1446788700014452zbMATH Open1062.11045arXivmath/0206166MaRDI QIDQ4658690FDOQ4658690

Authors: Greg Martin 

Publication date: 18 March 2005

Published in: Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many generalizations of continued fractions, where the reciprocal function has been replaced by a more general function, have been studied, and it is often asked whether such generalized expansions can have nice properties. For instance, we might ask that algebraic numbers of a given degree have periodic expansions, just as quadratic irrationals have periodic continued fractions; or we might ask that familiar transcendental constants such as $e$ or $pi$ have periodic or terminating expansions. In this paper, we show that there exist such generalized continued function expansions with essentially any desired behavior.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206166

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zbMATH Keywords

\(f\)-expansionContinued function expansions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Convergence and divergence of continued fractions (40A15)

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