Additive partitions and continued fractions
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Additive partitions and continued fractions
zbMATH Open document ID: 0936.11059
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009813309003
author: Timothy Y. Chow
author: Christopher D. Long
published in: The Ramanujan Journal
publication date: 2000-05-24T00:00:00Z
review text: If \(A_1\) is a subset of \(N\), let \(A_2\) denote the complement of \(A_1\). Let \(S\) be a subset of \(N\) such that the sum of any two elements of \(A_i\) is not in \(S\), where \(i= 1,2\) respectively. Then say that \(S\) is avoided by \(\{A_1, A_2\}\). The authors' main result is the following: if \(\alpha\) is an irrational number such that \(1< \alpha< 2\), \(A_1= A_\alpha\) is a certain subset of \(N\) that depends on \(\alpha\), and \(S_\alpha\) is the subset of \(N\) that is avoided by \(\{A_1, A_2\}\), then \(S_\alpha\) contains all numerators of continued fraction convergents of \(\alpha\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11P81
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11A55
zbMATH DE Number: 1287943
zbMATH Keywords: continued fraction convergents
zbMATH Keywords: partitions
reviewed by: Neville Robbins
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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