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arxiv: 1702.07457 · v2 · pith:NRJIKSNTnew · submitted 2017-02-24 · 🧮 math.NT

Continued fractions of certain Mahler functions

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We investigate the continued fraction expansion of the infinite products $g(x) = x^{-1}\prod_{t=0}^\infty P(x^{-d^t})$ where polynomials $P(x)$ satisfy $P(0)=1$ and $\deg(P)<d$. We construct relations between partial quotients of $g(x)$ which can be used to get recurrent formulae for them. We provide that formulae for the cases $d=2$ and $d=3$. As an application, we prove that for $P(x) = 1+ux$ where $u$ is an arbitrary rational number except 0 and 1, and for any integer $b$ with $|b|>1$ such that $g(b)\neq0$ the irrationality exponent of $g(b)$ equals two. In the case $d=3$ we provide a partial analogue of the last result with several collections of polynomials $P(x)$ giving the irrationality exponent of $g(b)$ strictly bigger than two.

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