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On the Lévy constants for quadratic irrationals

Author: Jun Wu
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 1631-1634
MSC (2000): Primary 11K50, 11J70
Posted: December 15, 2005
MathSciNet review: 2204273
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Abstract: We prove that the set of Lévy constants for quadratic irrationals is dense in $[\log \frac{\sqrt{5}+1}{2}, \infty)$ .

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Jun Wu
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, People's Republic of China
Email: wujunyu@public.wh.hb.cn

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08283-3
PII: S 0002-9939(05)08283-3
Keywords: L\'evy constant, quadratic irrational
Received by editor(s): January 28, 2005
Posted: December 15, 2005
Additional Notes: The author was supported in part by the Kua-Shi-Ji Foundation of Educational Committee and NSFC (10571138). This work was done during the author's visit to the LAMFA, CNRS UMR 6140, Amiens; he would like to thank the institution for their warm hospitality.
Communicated by: David E. Rohrlich
Article copyright: © Copyright 2005 American Mathematical Society
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