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Unbounded transcendent formal power series in Fq((X-1
))
1
I. Hassairi* and 2
R.Ghorbel
1,2
Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, Department of Mathematics, Sfax 3000, Tunisia.
Received on: 15/02/2017, Revised on: 27/02/2017, Accepted on: 06/03/2017
ABSTRACT
Let Fq be a finite field and Fq((X-1
)) the field of formal power series with coefficients in Fq. In this work,
we construct a family of transcendental continued fractions in Fq((X-1
)) with unbounded partial quotients
from algebraic elements.
Key Words: continued fraction, formal power series, transcendence, finite fields.
AMS Subject classification: 11A55, 11J81.
INTRODUCTION
In [9, 3], Maillet and Baker studied the real number x = [a0, a1,..] where (ai)i ≥0 is the sequence of partial
quotients of x such that an = an+1 = … = an+ (n) 1, for infinitely positive integers n where λ(n) is a sequence
of integers verifying some increasing properties. The authors showed that x is transcendent and their
proof is based on the theorem of Davenport and Roth [5] and taking into account the assumption on (ai)i
≥0 which is bounded.
Later, Adamczewski and Bugeaud [1] improved new transcendence criteria for continued fractions by
using the Schmidt subspace Theorem given in [13] where the author showed that if an irrational number
is very well approximated by quadratic numbers then it is quadratic or transcendental.
Unfortunately, in the field of formal series, we have not similar theorems to these of Roth and Schmidt.
In 1976, Baum and Sweet [4] proved that the unique solution in F2((X-1
)) of
the cubic equation
X α3
+ α + X = 0
has a continued fraction expansion with partial quotients of bounded degree. They observed that no real
algebraic number of degree ≥ 3 has yet been shown to have bounded or unbounded partial quotients.
In 1986, Mills and Robbins [10] provided an example of algebraic formal series over F2((X-1
)) whose
sequence of partial quotients is unbounded.
In 2004, Mkaouar [12] gave a similar result to the Baker one [3] concerning the transcendence of formal
series over a finite field.
In 2006, Hbaib, Mkaouar and Tounsi [6] proved a result which allows the construction of a family of
transcendent continued fractions over Fq((X-1
)) from an algebraic formal series of degree more than 2.
Recently, Ammous, Driss and Hbaib [2] improved a new transcendence criterion depending only on the
length of specific blocks appearing in the sequence of partial quotients.
The goal of this work is to generalize the result in [2]. We will construct unbounded continued fractions
and transcendent in Fq((X-1
)) from algebraic formal power series: exactly, this paper aims to approximate
transcendental series by a family of algebraic series.
This article is organized as follows: In the next section, we set up the problem and we give some useful
definitions and known results in the field of formal power series and the continued fraction expansions
over this field. In section 3, we treat the objective of this paper and we establish a new general result on a
transcendence criterion. Later, we give an example to illustrate the importance of our result.
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Asian Journal of Mathematical Sciences 2017; 1(2):31-35