Convergents as approximants in continued fraction expansions of complex numbers with Eisenstein integers

Abstract: Let

f r a k E

denote be the ring of Eisenstein integers. Let

z i n m a t h b b C

and

p_{n}, q_{n} i n f r a k E

be such that

p_{n} / q_{n}

is the sequence of convergents corresponding to the continued fraction expansion of

z

with respect to the nearest integer algorithm. Then we show that for any

q i n f r a k E

such that

1 l e q | q | l e q | q_{n} |

and any

p i n f r a k E

,

| q z - p | g e q f r a c 12 | q_{n} z - p_{n} |

. This enables us to conclude that

z i n m a t h b b C

is badly approximable, in terms of Eisenstein integers, if and only if the corresponding sequence of partial quotients is bounded.

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