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Representations of rational numbers and Minkowski dimension

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-12-25 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the representations of rational numbers via continued fraction, Egyptian fraction, and Engel fraction expansions. Given mNm \in \mathbb{N}, denote by Cm,Em,EmC_m, E_m, E_m^* the sets of rational numbers whose continued fraction, Egyptian fraction, and Engel fraction expansions have length mm, respectively. We first establish the Minkowski dimensions of these sets, which implies that their global scaling properties are different. We also apply the results to sumsets of decreasing sequences.

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@article{arxiv.2510.17112,
  title  = {Representations of rational numbers and Minkowski dimension},
  author = {Haipeng Chen and Lai Jiang and Yufeng Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17112},
  year   = {2025}
}