A general Lagrange Theorem

Details A general Lagrange Theorem A general Lagrange Theorem

2007-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0712.2996v1

Mathematics

Number Theory

5 pages, 2 figures

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The ordinary continued fractions expansion of a real number is based on the Euclidean division. Variants of the latter yield variants of the former, all encompassed by a more general Dynamical Systems framework. For all these variants the Lagrange Theorem holds: a number has an eventually periodic expansion if and only if it is a quadratic irrational. This fact is surely known for specific expansions, but the only proof for the general case that I could trace in the literature follows as an implicit corollary from much deeper results by Boshernitzan and Carroll on interval exchange transformations. It may then be useful to have at hand a simple and virtually computation-free proof of a general Lagrange Theorem.

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