A Note on the Base-p Expansions of Putative Counterexamples to the p-adic Littlewood Conjecture

MaRDI QIDQ6510604arXivFDO

Authors John Blackman, Simon Kristensen

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation in non-Archimedean valuations (11J61) Homogeneous approximation to one number (11J04)

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the base-$p$ expansions of putative counterexamples to the $p$-adic Littlewood Conjecture of de Mathan and Teuli'e. We show that if a counterexample exists, then so does a counterexample whose base-$p$ expansion is uniformly recurrent. Furthermore, we show that if the base-$p$ expansion of $x$ is a pure morphic word for which the underlying morphism is either primitive or $k$-uniform, then $x$ can only be a counterexample to the conjecture if the word is overlap-free. In the special case when $p=2$, we show that the conjecture holds for all pure morphic words.

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