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We introduce and study in detail a special class of backward continued fractions that represents a generalization of R\'enyi continued fractions. We investigate the main metrical properties of the digits occurring in these expansions and we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Gabriela Ileana Sebe , Dan Lascu

In recent work, the first two authors constructed a generalized continued fraction called the $p$-continued fraction, characterized by the property that its convergents (a subsequence of the regular convergents) are best approximations with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Nickolas Andersen , William Duke , Zach Hacking , Amy Woodall

A well known theorem of Lagrange states that the simple continued fraction of a real number $\alpha$ is periodic if and only if $\alpha$ is a quadratic irrational. We examine non-periodic and non-simple continued fractions formed by two…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Michael Obiero Oyengo

In this short note, we give a proof, conditional on the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, that there exist numbers x which are normal with respect to the continued fraction expansion but not to any base b expansion. This partially answers a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Joseph Vandehey

The arithmetic partial derivative (with respect to a prime $p$) is a function from the set of integers that sends $p$ to 1 and satisfies the Leibniz rule. In this paper, we prove that the $p$-adic valuation of the sequence of higher order…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Brad Emmons , Xiao Xiao

The $p$-adic completion $\mathbb{Q}_p$ of the rational numbers induces a different absolute value $|\cdot|_p$ than the typical $| \cdot |$ we have on the real numbers. In this paper we compare and contrast functions $f \colon \mathbb{R}^{+}…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Robert W. Vallin , Oleksiy A. Dovgoshey

We prove Haynes' version of the Duffin--Schaeffer conjecture for the $p$-adic numbers. In addition, we prove several results about an associated related but false conjecture, related to $p$-adic approximation in the spirit of Jarn\'ik and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Simon Kristensen , Mathias Løkkegaard Laursen

We use the Schmidt Subspace Theorem to establish the transcendence of a class of quasi-periodic continued fractions. This improves earlier works of Maillet and of A. Baker. We also improve an old result of Davenport and Roth on the rate of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-07 Boris Adamczewski , Yann Bugeaud

In their study of a binomial sum related to Wolstenholme's theorem, Chamberland and Dilcher prove that the corresponding sequence modulo primes $p$ satisfies congruences that are analogous to Lucas' theorem for the binomial coefficients…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Armin Straub

This paper concerns extension of the classical Lagrange theorem, on the eventual periodicity of continued fraction expansions of quadratic surds, and the versions of it found in the literature in the case of complex numbers. In this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-09 S. G. Dani , Ojas Sahasrabudhe

A complete p-adic Khintchine type theorem for approximation by p-adic algebraic numbers is established.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-15 Victor Beresnevich , Vasili Bernik , Ella Kovalevskaya

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

We introduce a $p$-adic analogue of the incomplete gamma function. We also introduce quantities ($m$-values) associated to a function on natural numbers and prove a new characterization of $p$-adic continuity for functions with $p$-integral…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Andrew O'Desky , David Harry Richman

In this paper we study the properties of an algorithm for generating continued fractions in the field of p-adic numbers $\mathbb{Q}_p$. First of all, we obtain an analogue of the Galois' Theorem for classical continued fractions. Then, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Nadir Murru , Giuliano Romeo , Giordano Santilli

We consider continued fractions with partial quotients in the ring of integers of a quadratic number field $K$ and we prove a generalization to such continued fractions of the classical theorem of Lagrange. A particular example of these…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Zuzana Masáková , Tomáš Vávra , Francesco Veneziano

For the purposes of this paper supercongruences are congruences between terminating hypergeometric series and quotients of $p$-adic Gamma functions that are stronger than those one can expect to prove using commutative formal group laws. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Ling Long , Ravi Ramakrishna

Multidimensional continued fractions (MCFs) were introduced by Jacobi and Perron in order to obtain periodic representations for algebraic irrationals, as it is for continued fractions and quadratic irrationals. Since continued fractions…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Nadir Murru , Lea Terracini

In this paper, we will first summarize known results concerning continued fractions. Then we will limit our consideration to continued fractions of quadratic numbers. The second author described periods and sometimes precise form of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Lubomíra Balková , Aranka Hrušková

Wan proved the rationality of partial toric $L$-functions using $\ell$-adic techniques. In this paper, we present a $p$-adic proof in the spirit of Dwork. We demonstrate that partial $L$-functions can be expressed as an alternating product…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-09 C. Douglas Haessig

We extend a result of Han\v{c}l, Kolouch and Nair on the irrationality and transcendence of continued fractions. We show that for a sequence $\{\alpha_n\}$ of algebraic integers of bounded degree, each attaining the maximum absolute value…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Simon Bruno Andersen , Simon Kristensen