Radical bound for Zaremba's conjecture
Abstract
Famous Zaremba's conjecture (1971) states that for each positive integer , there exists positive integer , coprime to , such that if you expand a fraction into a continued fraction , all of the coefficients 's are bounded by some absolute constant , independent of . Zaremba conjectured that this should hold for . In 1986, Niederreiter proved Zaremba's conjecture for numbers of the form with and for with . In this paper we prove that for each number , there exists , coprime to , such that all of the partial quotients in the continued fraction of are bounded by , where is the radical of an integer number, i.e. the product of all distinct prime numbers dividing . In particular, this means that Zaremba's conjecture holds for numbers of the form with , generalizing Neiderreiter's result. Our result also improves upon the recent result by Moshchevitin, Murphy and Shkredov on numbers of the form , where is an arbitrary prime and sufficiently large.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.09801,
title = {Radical bound for Zaremba's conjecture},
author = {Nikita Shulga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.09801},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
8 pages, comments appreciated