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ON GENERALIZED THUE–MORSE FUNCTIONS AND THEIR VALUES

Part of: Algebraic number theory: global fields Diophantine approximation, transcendental number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2019

DZMITRY BADZIAHIN Open the ORCID record for DZMITRY BADZIAHIN [Opens in a new window]  and
EVGENIY ZORIN Open the ORCID record for EVGENIY ZORIN [Opens in a new window]
DZMITRY BADZIAHIN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, Lower Mountjoy, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK email [email protected]
EVGENIY ZORIN*
Affiliation:
The University of York, Department of Mathematics, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK email [email protected]
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Abstract

In this paper we extend and generalize, up to a natural bound of the method, our previous work Badziahin and Zorin [‘Thue–Morse constant is not badly approximable’, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 19 (2015), 9618–9637] where we proved, among other things, that the Thue–Morse constant is not badly approximable. Here we consider Laurent series defined with infinite products $f_{d}(x)=\prod _{n=0}^{\infty }(1-x^{-d^{n}})$, $d\in \mathbb{N}$, $d\geq 2$, which generalize the generating function $f_{2}(x)$ of the Thue–Morse number, and study their continued fraction expansion. In particular, we show that the convergents of $x^{-d+1}f_{d}(x)$ have a regular structure. We also address the question of whether the corresponding Mahler numbers $f_{d}(a)\in \mathbb{R}$, $a,d\in \mathbb{N}$, $a,d\geq 2$, are badly approximable.

Keywords

diophantine approximationsMahler numbersThue–Morseautomatic numberscontinued fractions

MSC classification

Secondary: 11R06: PV-numbers and generalizations; other special algebraic numbers; Mahler measure 11J70: Continued fractions and generalizations
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 108 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 177 - 201
Copyright
© 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

Dzmitry Badziahin acknowledges the support of EPSRC Grant EP/E061613/1. Evgeniy Zorin acknowledges the support of EPSRC Grant EP/M021858/1.

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