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John Blackman

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arXiv2024

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

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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arXiv2023

Multidimensional integer trigonometry

This paper is dedicated to providing an introduction into multidimensional integer trigonometry. We start with an exposition of integer trigonometry in two dimensions, which was introduced in 2008, and use this to generalise these integer trigonometric functions to arbitrary dimension. We then move on to study the basic properties of integer trigonometric functions. We find integer trigonometric relations for transpose and adjacent simplicial cones, and for the cones which generate the same simplices. Additionally, we discuss the relationship between integer trigonometry, the Euclidean algorithm, and continued fractions. Finally, we use adjacent and transpose cones to introduce a notion of best approximations of simplicial cones. In two dimensions, this notion of best approximation coincides with the classical notion of the best approximations of real numbers.

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arXiv2021

Infinite Loops and the $p$-adic Littlewood Conjecture. Part I: Reformulating the $p$-adic Littlewood Conjecture in Terms of Infinite Loops

In this paper we introduce the concept of an infinite loop mod $n$ and discuss the properties that these objects have. In particular, we show that a real number $α$ is a counterexample to the $p$-adic Littlewood Conjecture if and only if there exists some $m\in\mathbb{N}$ such that $p^kα$ is an infinite loop mod $p^m$, for all $k\in\mathbb{N}$. This paper is the first of a two part series, which investigate the link between infinite loops and the $p$-adic Littlewood Conjecture.

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