A Note on the Base-$p$ Expansions of Putative Counterexamples to the $p$-adic Littlewood Conjecture

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Autori principali: Blackman, John, Kristensen, Simon, Northey, Matthew J.
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author Blackman, John
Kristensen, Simon
Northey, Matthew J.
author_facet Blackman, John
Kristensen, Simon
Northey, Matthew J.
contents In this paper, we investigate the base-$p$ expansions of putative counterexamples to the $p$-adic Littlewood conjecture of de Mathan and Teulié. We show that if a counterexample exists, then so does a counterexample whose base-$p$ expansion is uniformly recurrent. Furthermore, we show that if the base-$p$ expansion of $x$ is a morphic word $τ(ϕ^ω(a))$ where $ϕ^ω(a)$ contains a subword of the form $uXuXu$ with $\lim_{n\to\infty}|ϕ^n(u)|=\infty$, then $x$ satisfies the $p$-adic Littlewood conjecture. In the special case when $p=2$, we show that the conjecture holds for all pure morphic words.
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spellingShingle A Note on the Base-$p$ Expansions of Putative Counterexamples to the $p$-adic Littlewood Conjecture
Blackman, John
Kristensen, Simon
Northey, Matthew J.
Number Theory
Combinatorics
11J04 11J61
In this paper, we investigate the base-$p$ expansions of putative counterexamples to the $p$-adic Littlewood conjecture of de Mathan and Teulié. We show that if a counterexample exists, then so does a counterexample whose base-$p$ expansion is uniformly recurrent. Furthermore, we show that if the base-$p$ expansion of $x$ is a morphic word $τ(ϕ^ω(a))$ where $ϕ^ω(a)$ contains a subword of the form $uXuXu$ with $\lim_{n\to\infty}|ϕ^n(u)|=\infty$, then $x$ satisfies the $p$-adic Littlewood conjecture. In the special case when $p=2$, we show that the conjecture holds for all pure morphic words.
title A Note on the Base-$p$ Expansions of Putative Counterexamples to the $p$-adic Littlewood Conjecture
topic Number Theory
Combinatorics
11J04 11J61
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09853