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Rational Approximations to Certain Algebraic Numbers

Number Theory 2023-11-29 v6

Abstract

W.M.Schmit[11] conjectured that for any  θ\;\theta with deg  θ3,\;\theta\geq 3, there is no constant  C=C(θ)\;C=C(\theta) so that  pqθ>Cq1\;|p-q\theta|>Cq^{-1} for every rationa  p/q.\;p/q. [12,p26] states that the computations of the first several thousand partial quotients for such numbers as  23\;\sqrt[3]{2} and  33\;\sqrt[3]{3} support the conjecture that the sequence of partial quotients is unbounded. In this paper, applying Dirichlet's approximation theorem to certain algebraic numbers  θ,\;\theta, e.g.  θ=dn,dN,n3,d>0;\;\theta=\sqrt[n]{d},d\in N,n\geq 3,d>0;   θ3+b1θb0=0,b0>0;\;\theta^{3}+b_{1}\theta-b_{0}=0,b_{0}>0;   θ4+b2θ2b0=0,  b0>0.\;\theta^{4}+b_{2}\theta^{2}-b_{0}=0,\;b_{0}>0. We proved that there exists a effective constant  C=C(θ)\;C=C(\theta) such that  pqθ>Cq1\;|p-q\theta|>Cq^{-1} for all  p/q.\;p/q. Our theorem shows their sequence of partial quotients can not be unbounded.

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@article{arxiv.1904.09392,
  title  = {Rational Approximations to Certain Algebraic Numbers},
  author = {Jinxiang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09392},
  year   = {2023}
}
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