Alternating geometric progressions modulo one and Sturmian words
Number Theory
2026-04-03 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
Let be an integer. Using Sturmian words we describe all irrational real numbers such that the image in of the sequence is contained in an interval of length . In previous work (arXiv:2603.16794) we showed that the image cannot be contained in a shorter interval.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.22045,
title = {Alternating geometric progressions modulo one and Sturmian words},
author = {Qing Lu and Weizhe Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.22045},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
13 pages. v2: fixed typos