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Congruences mod 4 for the alternating sum of the partial quotients

Number Theory 2015-01-08 v2

Abstract

We apply a technique used in [[Tsukerman, Equality of Dedekind sums mod Z\mathbb Z, 2Z2\mathbb Z and 4Z4\mathbb Z, arXiv:1408.3225] combined with the Barkan-Hickerson-Knuth-formula in order to obtain congruences mod 44 for the alternating sum of the partial quotients of the continued fraction expansion of a/ba/b, where 0<a<b0<a<b are integers.

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@article{arxiv.1501.00655,
  title  = {Congruences mod 4 for the alternating sum of the partial quotients},
  author = {Kurt Girstmair},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.00655},
  year   = {2015}
}