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Publications and source records attributed to Jaroslav Hancl.
We give conditions on a finite set of series of rational numbers to ensure that they are algebraically independent. Specialising our results to polynomials of lower degree, we also obtain new results on irrationality and $mathbb{Q}$-linear independence of such series.
Let $G$ denote a compact monothetic group, and let $$ρ(x) = α_k x^k + \ldots + α_1 x + α_0,$$ where $α_0, \ldots , α_k$ are elements of $G$ one of which is a generator of $G$. Let $(p_n)_{n\geq 1}$ denote the sequence of rational prime numbers. Suppose $f \in L^{p}(G)$ for $p> 1$. It is known that if $$A_{N}f(x) := {1 \over N} \sum_{n=1}^{N} f(x + ρ(p_n)) \qquad (N=1,2, \ldots ),$$ then the limit $\lim _{n\to \infty} A_Nf(x)$ exists for almost all $x$ with respect Haar measure. We show that if $G$ is connected then the limit is $\int_{G} f dλ$. In the case where $G$ is the $a$-adic integers, which is a totally disconnected group, the limit is described in terms of Fourier multipliers which are generalizations of Gauss sums.
We study how the asymptotic irrationality exponent of a given generalized continued fraction \[ \K_{n=1}^\infty \frac{a_n}{b_n}\,,\quad a_n, b_n\in \mathbb{Z}^+, \] behaves as a function of growth properties of partial coefficient sequences $(a_n)$ and $(b_n)$.