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Hankel determinants of the Cantor sequence

Number Theory 2014-11-12 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In the paper, we give the recurrent equations of the Hankel determinants of the Cantor sequence, and show that the Hankel determinants as a double sequence is 3-automatic. With the help of the Hankel determinants, we prove that the irrationality exponent of the Cantor number, i.e. the transcendental number with Cantor sequence as its b-ary expansion, equals 2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1407.3578,
  title  = {Hankel determinants of the Cantor sequence},
  author = {Zhi-xiong Wen and Wen Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3578},
  year   = {2014}
}

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20 pages, 1 figure

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