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Ap\'ery's remarkable discovery of rapidly converging continued fractions with small coefficients for $\zeta(2)$ and $\zeta(3)$ has led to a flurry of important activity in an incredible variety of different directions. Our purpose is to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Henri Cohen , Wadim Zudilin

We introduced a new continued fraction expansions in our previous paper. For these expansions, we show formulae of probability about incomplete quotients. Furthermore, we prove the existence of invariant measures with respect to the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-24 Dan Lascu , Katsunori Kawamura

Several conjectural continued fractions found with the help of various algorithms are published in this paper.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Thomas Baruchel

The study of combinatorial properties of mathematical objects is a very important research field and continued fractions have been deeply studied in this sense. However, multidimensional continued fractions, which are a generalization…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Michele Battagliola , Nadir Murru , Giordano Santilli

We consider two classes of $q$-continued fraction whose odd and even parts are limit 1-periodic for $|q|>1$, and give theorems which guarantee the convergence of the continued fraction, or of its odd- and even parts, at points outside the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Douglas Bowman , James Mc Laughlin

We propose and study a generalized continued fraction algorithm that can be executed in an arbitrary imaginary quadratic field, the novelty being a non-restriction to the five Euclidean cases. Many hallmark properties of classical continued…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Daniel E. Martin

We reformulate several known results about continued fractions in combinatorial terms. Among them the theorem of Conway and Coxeter and that of Series, both relating continued fractions and triangulations. More general polygon dissections…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Sophie Morier-Genoud , Valentin Ovsienko

The connection between a Taylor series and a continued-fraction involves a nonlinear relation between the Taylor coefficients $\{ a_n \}$ and the continued-fraction coefficients $\{ b_n \}$. In many instances it turns out that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Carl M. Bender , Kimball A. Milton

We highlight some facts about continued fractions of real cubic irrationalities. This may be thought as a small section in a textbook on continued fractions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Wadim Zudilin

We give continued fraction algorithms for a particular class of Fuchsian triangle groups. In particular, we give an explicit form of each such group that is a subgroup of the Hilbert modular group of its trace field and provide an interval…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-11 Kariane Calta , Thomas Schmidt

Proper continued fractions are generalized continued fractions with positive integer numerators $a_i$ and integer denominators with $b_i\geq a_i$. In this paper we study the strength of approximation of irrational numbers to their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Niels Langeveld , David Ralston

It is shown that a recent result regarding the average rate of evolution of a dynamical system at equilibrium in combination with the quantization of geometric areas coming from LQG, implies the validity of Kepler's Second Law of planetary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-05 Deepak Vaid

We consider a special class of periodic continued fractions (called alpha-fractions) and discuss the related algebraic and geometric problems. A classical description of the Jacobi variety of a hyperelliptic curve due to Jacobi naturally…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 M-P. Grosset , A. P. Veselov

We give a concise introduction to the theory of continuants and show how Perron used them in his proof of Tietze theorem on the convergence of infinite semi-regular continued fractions, as well as for the study of the convergence of purely…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Daniel Duverney , Iekata Shiokawa

In this paper we recall some results and some criteria on the convergence of matrix continued fractions. The aim of this paper is to give some properties and results of continued fractions with matrix arguments. Then we give continued…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 S. Mennou , A. Chillali , A. Kacha

We survey the use of continued fraction expansions in the algebraical and topological study of complex analytic singularities. We also prove new results, firstly concerning a geometric duality with respect to a lattice between plane…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Patrick Popescu-Pampu

In this paper we adopt a geometric point of view regarding a famous conjecture due to Littlewood in diophantine approximation of real numbers. Following the spirit of the geometric theory of continued fractions, we give a sufficient…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Youssef Lazar

We prove an analog of Lagrange's Theorem for continued fractions on the Heisenberg group: points with an eventually periodic continued fraction expansion are those that satisfy a particular type of quadratic form, and vice-versa.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Joseph Vandehey

This paper aims to introduce high school students to the intriguing world of continued fractions, a mathematical concept that provides a unique representation of numbers. The study focuses on the exploration and development of the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Athanasios Paraskevopoulos

Using techniques introduced by D. Mayer, we prove an extension of the classical Gauss-Kuzmin theorem about the distribution of continued fractions, which in particular allows one to take into account some congruence properties of successive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri I. Manin , Matilde Marcolli