Finiteness and periodicity of continued fractions over quadratic number fields

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Abstract: We consider continued fractions with partial quotients in the ring of integers of a quadratic number field K and we prove a generalization to such continued fractions of the classical theorem of Lagrange. A particular example of these continued fractions is the -continued fraction introduced by Bernat. As a corollary of our theorem we show that for any quadratic Perron number , the -continued fraction expansion of elements in is either finite of eventually periodic. The same holds for being a square root of an integer. We also show that for certain 4 quadratic Perron numbers , the -continued fraction represents finitely all elements of the quadratic field , thus answering questions of Rosen and Bernat. Based on the validity of a conjecture of Mercat, these are all quadratic Perron numbers with this feature.









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