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On $\beta$-adic expansions of powers of algebraic integer omitting a digit

Number Theory 2025-12-05 v2

Abstract

Let α,β\alpha, \beta be two relatively prime algebraic integers in a number field KK and NN be a positive integer. We show that the number of n{1,2,,N}n\in\{1,2,\dots,N\} such that the β\beta-adic expansion of αn\alpha^n omits a given digit is less than C1Nσ(β)C_1 N^{\sigma(\beta)}, where σ(β):=log(N(β)1)logN(β)\sigma(\beta):=\frac{\log(|N(\beta)|-1)}{\log|N(\beta)|} and C1C_1 is an absolute constant, if all prime ideal factors of β\beta are unramified and their norms are integer primes.

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@article{arxiv.2405.06220,
  title  = {On $\beta$-adic expansions of powers of algebraic integer omitting a digit},
  author = {Jiuzhou Zhao and Ruofan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.06220},
  year   = {2025}
}