The sequence of fractional parts of roots

DOI10.4064/AA169-4-4zbMATH Open1357.11032arXiv1410.2927OpenAlexW2964143967MaRDI QIDQ5261962FDOQ5261962

Authors: Kevin O'Bryant 

Publication date: 8 July 2015

Published in: Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the function M(t,n) = Floor[ 1 / {t^(1/n)} ], where t is a positive real number, Floor[.] and {.} are the floor and fractional part functions, respectively. In a recent article in the Monthly, Nathanson proved that if log(t) is rational, then for all but finitely many positive integers n one has M(t,n) = Floor[ n / log(t) - 1/2 ]. We extend this by showing that, without condition on t, all but a zero-density set of integers n satisfy M(t,n) = Floor[ n / log(t) - 1/2 ]. Using a metric result of Schmidt, we show that almost all t have asymptotically log(t) log(x)/12 exceptional n<x. Using continued fractions, we produce uncountably many t that have only finitely many exceptional n, and also give uncountably many explicit t that have infinitely many exceptional n.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2927

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zbMATH Keywords

uniform distributioncontinued fractionsfractional parts of roots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Diophantine approximation, transcendental number theory (11J99)

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