On the transcendence of growth constants associated with polynomial recursions

Abstract: Let

k i n m a t h b b N

, and let

(a l p h a_{1}, l d o t s, a l p h a_{k})

be a non-degenerate tuple of algebraic numbers with

| a l p h a_{i} | g e 1

for

1 l e q i l e q k

and none of

a l p h a_{i}

is root of unity. Let

K

be a number field and

be an algebraic number. Let

h e t a i n (0, 1)

be any number. In this article, we study the solutions of the inequality

in

(n, q_{1}, l d o t s, q_{k}) i n m a t h b b N i m e s (K^{*})^{k}

, depending on

rational or irrational. Here

| | x | |

denotes the distance between

x

and its nearest integer in

m a t h b b Z

. As a consequence of our result, we show that if

P (x) := a_{d} x^{d} + c d o t s + a_{0} i n m a t h b b Q [x]

,

a_{d} > 0

, is a polynomial of degree

d g e q 2

and

(x_{n})

is a sequence of integers satisfying

x_{n+1}=P(x_n)~~mbox{for all~~} n=0,1,2ldots,quadmbox{and~~~} x_n oinftyquadmbox{as~~~} n oinfty,

then either the number

a l p h a := l i m_{n o i n f t y} x_{n}^{d^{- n}}

is transcendental or

a_{d}^{1 / d - 1} a l p h a^{d^{n}}

is not a pseudo-Piost number for all large values of

n

, provided

f r a c a_{d - 1} d a_{d}

is not an integer.

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