Quaternionic p-adic continued fractions

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Authors Laura Capuano, Marzio Mula, L. Terracini

Publication date 8 August 2022

Abstract: We develop a theory of $p$-adic continued fractions for a quaternion algebra $B$ over $mathbbQ$ ramified at a rational prime $p$. Many properties holding in the commutative case can be proven also in this setting. In particular, we focus our attention on the characterization of elements having a finite continued fraction expansion. By means of a suitable notion of quaternionic height, we prove a criterion for finiteness. Furthermore, we draw some consequences about the solutions of a family of quadratic polynomial equations with coefficients in $B$.

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