Period-doubling Continued Fractions are Algebraic in Characteristic $2$
Abstract
Considering an arbitrary pair of distinct and non constant polynomials, and in , we build a continued fraction in whose partial quotients are only equal to or . In a previous work of the first author and Han (to appear in Acta Arithmetica), the authors considered two cases where the sequence of partial quotients represents in each case a famous and basic -automatic sequence, both defined in a similar way by morphisms. They could prove the algebraicity of the corresponding continued fractions for several pairs in the first case (the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence) and gave the proof for a particular pair for the second case (the period-doubling sequence). Recently Bugeaud and Han (arXiv:2203.02213) proved the algebraicity for an arbitrary pair in the first case. Here we give a short proof for an arbitrary pair in the second case.
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@article{arxiv.2204.01068,
title = {Period-doubling Continued Fractions are Algebraic in Characteristic $2$},
author = {Yining Hu and Alain Lasjaunias},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.01068},
year = {2022}
}