On the Lévy constants for quadratic irrationals
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Abstract:
We prove that the set of Lévy constants for quadratic irrationals is dense in $[\log \frac {\sqrt {5}+1}{2}, \infty )$.References
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Additional Information
- 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
- Received by editor(s): January 28, 2005
- Published electronically: 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
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American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 1631-1634
- MSC (2000): Primary 11K50, 11J70
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08283-3
- MathSciNet review: 2204273