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On radius of convergence of $q$-deformed real numbers

Quantum Algebra 2022-12-21 v2

Abstract

We study analytic properties of ``qq-deformed real numbers'', a notion recently introduced by two of us. A qq-deformed positive real number is a power series with integer coefficients in one formal variable~qq. We study the radius of convergence of these power series assuming that qq is a complex variable. Our main conjecture, which can be viewed as a qq-analogue of Hurwitz's Irrational Number Theorem, claims that the qq-deformed golden ratio has the smallest radius of convergence among all real numbers. The conjecture is proved for certain class of rational numbers and confirmed by a number of computer experiments. We also prove the explicit lower bounds for the radius of convergence for the qq-deformed convergents of golden and silver ratios.

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@article{arxiv.2102.00891,
  title  = {On radius of convergence of $q$-deformed real numbers},
  author = {Ludivine Leclere and Sophie Morier-Genoud and Valentin Ovsienko and Alexander Veselov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.00891},
  year   = {2022}
}

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