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On the expansions of real numbers in two integer bases

Number Theory 2016-12-13 v3

Abstract

Let rr and ss be multiplicatively independent positive integers. We establish that the rr-ary expansion and the ss-ary expansion of an irrational real number, viewed as infinite words on {0,1,,r1}\{0, 1, \ldots , r-1\} and {0,1,,s1}\{0, 1, \ldots , s-1\}, respectively, cannot have simultaneously a low block complexity. In particular, they cannot be both Sturmian words.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06935,
  title  = {On the expansions of real numbers in two integer bases},
  author = {Yann Bugeaud and Dong Han Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06935},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, to appear at Annales de l'Institut Fourier