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Continued fractions with large prime partial quotients

Number Theory 2025-07-24 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We determine the Lebesgue measure and Hausdorff dimension of various sets of real numbers with infinitely many partial quotients that are both large and prime, thus extending the well-known theorems by {\L}uczak (1997) and Huang-Wu-Xu (2020). To this end, we obtain new asymptotics on the tail end of the almost prime zeta function. Our results include some recent work by Schindler-Zweim{\"u}ller (2023).

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@article{arxiv.2507.17167,
  title  = {Continued fractions with large prime partial quotients},
  author = {Gerardo González Robert and Mumtaz Hussain and Benjamin Ward and Lauren White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.17167},
  year   = {2025}
}

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24 pages, comments welcome

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