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Scaling in simple continued fraction

Statistical Mechanics 2020-02-19 v1

Abstract

We consider a class of real numbers, a subset of irrational numbers and certain mathematical constants, for which the elements in the simple continued fraction appears to be random. As an illustrative example, one can consider π={x0,x1,x2,xn}\pi = \{x_0, x_1, x_2, \dots x_n\}, where xx's are the continued fraction elements computed with an exact value of π\pi up to NN precision. We numerically compute probability distribution for the elements and observe a striking power-law behavior P(x)x2P(x)\sim x^{-2}. The statistical analysis indicates that the elements are uncorrelated and the scaling is robust with respect to the precision. Our arguments reveal that the underlying mechanism generating such a scaling may be sample space reducing process.

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@article{arxiv.1907.04721,
  title  = {Scaling in simple continued fraction},
  author = {Avinash Chand Yadav},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.04721},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures

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