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Periodic continued fractions and elliptic curves over quadratic fields

Number Theory 2016-07-01 v2

Abstract

Let f(x)f(x) be a square free quartic polynomial defined over a quadratic field KK such that its leading coefficient is a square. If the continued fraction expansion of f(x)\displaystyle \sqrt{f(x)} is periodic, then its period nn lies in the set {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,22,26,30,34}.\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,22,26,30,34\}. We write explicitly all such polynomials for which the period nn occurs over KK but not over \Q\Q and n∉{13,15,17}\displaystyle n\not\in\{ 13,15,17\}. Moreover we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such continued fraction expansions with period 13,1513, 15 or 1717 over KK.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6174,
  title  = {Periodic continued fractions and elliptic curves over quadratic fields},
  author = {Mohammad Sadek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6174},
  year   = {2016}
}

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