There are infinitely many limit points of the fractional parts of powers
Abstract
Suppose that $\al>1$ is an algebraic number and $\xi>0$ is a real number. We prove that the sequence of fractional parts $\{\xi \al^n\},$ $n =1,2,3,...,$ has infinitely many limit points except when $\al$ is a PV-number and $\xi \in \Q(\al).$ For $\xi=1$ and $\al$ being a rational non-integer number, this result was proved by Vijayaraghavan.
- Publication:
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arXiv Mathematics e-prints
- Pub Date:
- December 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math/0512314
- Bibcode:
- 2005math.....12314D
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Number Theory;
- 11J71;
- 11R04;
- 11R06
- E-Print:
- 7 pages