{ "id": "2005.04371", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-05-09T05:39:39.000Z", "updated": "2020-05-09T05:39:39.000Z", "title": "Diophantine approximation by negative continued fraction", "authors": [ "Hiroaki Ito" ], "comment": "8 pages", "categories": [ "math.DS", "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We show that the growth rate of denominator $Q_n$ of the $n$-th convergent of negative expansion of $x$ and the rate of approximation: $$ \\frac{\\log{n}}{n}\\log{\\left|x-\\frac{P_n}{Q_n}\\right|}\\rightarrow -\\frac{\\pi^2}{3} \\quad \\text{in measure.} $$ for a.e. $x$. In the course of the proof, we reprove known inspiring results that arithmetic mean of digits of negative continued fraction converges to 3 in measure, although the limit inferior is 2, and the limit superior is infinite almost everywhere.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-05-09T05:39:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "diophantine approximation", "limit superior", "growth rate", "arithmetic mean", "negative continued fraction converges" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }