Linear independence of continued fractions with algebraic terms

Jaroslav Hančl, Mathias L. Laursen, Jitu Berhanu Leta

Published 2024-06-27Version 1

We give conditions on sequences of positive algebraic numbers $\{a_{n,j}\}_{n=1}^\infty$, $j=1,\dots ,M$ and number field $\mathbb K$ to ensure that the numbers defined by the continued fractions $[0;a_{1,j},a_{2,j},\dots ]$, $j=1,\dots ,M$ and $1$ are linearly independent over $\mathbb K$.