Noncanonical number systems in the integers
Number Theory
2008-10-03 v1
Abstract
The well known binary and decimal representations of the integers, and other similar number systems, admit many generalisations. Here, we investigate whether still every integer could have a finite expansion on a given integer base b, when we choose a digit set that does not contain 0. We prove that such digit sets exist and we provide infinitely many examples for every base b with |b|\ge 4, and for b=-2. For the special case b=-2, we give a full characterisation of all valid digit sets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0804.2190,
title = {Noncanonical number systems in the integers},
author = {Christiaan van de Woestijne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2190},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
30 pages, to appear in Journal of Number Theory