Heights and transcendence of p--adic continued fractions

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Authors: Ignazio Longhi, Nadir Murru, Francesco M. Saettone 

Abstract: Special kinds of continued fractions have been proved to converge to transcendental real numbers by means of the celebrated Subspace Theorem. In this paper we study the analogous $p$--adic problem. More specifically, we deal with Browkin $p$--adic continued fractions. First we give some new remarks about the Browkin algorithm in terms of a $p$--adic Euclidean algorithm. Then, we focus on the heights of some $p$--adic numbers having a periodic $p$--adic continued fraction expansion and we obtain some upper bounds. Finally, we exploit these results, together with $p$--adic Roth-like results, in order to prove the transcendence of two families of $p$--adic continued fractions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Schmidt Subspace Theorem and applications (11J87)

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