On continued fraction partial quotients of square roots of primes

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2023.06.013zbMATH Open1530.11008arXiv2212.07198MaRDI QIDQ6093376FDOQ6093376

Vitězslav Kala, Piotr Miska

Publication date: 6 September 2023

Published in: Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that for each positive integer $a$ there exist only finitely many prime numbers $p$ such that $a$ appears an odd number of times in the period of continued fraction of $sqrtp$ or $sqrt2p$. We also prove that if $p$ is a prime number and $D=p$ or $2p$ is such that the length of the period of continued fraction expansion of $sqrtD$ is divisible by $4$, then $1$ appears as a partial quotient in the continued fraction of $sqrtD$. Furthermore, we give an upper bound for the period length of continued fraction expansion of $sqrtD$, where $D$ is a positive non-square, and factorize some family of polynomials with integral coefficients connected with continued fractions of square roots of positive integers. These results answer several questions recently posed by Miska and Ulas.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07198

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionprime numbersquare root of a positive integer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55)

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