Fractional parts of powers of negative rationals
Number Theory
2026-03-25 v2
Abstract
We prove that for any real number and any coprime integers such that is irrational or , the image in of the sequence is not contained in any interval of length less than .
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@article{arxiv.2603.16794,
title = {Fractional parts of powers of negative rationals},
author = {Qing Lu and Weizhe Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16794},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
9 pages. v2: fixed typos