On the Eventually Periodic Continued β-Fractions and Their Lévy Constants

Abstract

In this paper, we consider continued β-fractions with golden ratio base β. We show that if the continued β-fraction expansion of a non-negative real number is eventually periodic, then it is the root of a quadratic irreducible polynomial with the coefficients in Z[β] and we conjecture the converse is false, which is different from Lagrange’s theorem for the regular continued fractions. We prove that the set of Lévy constants of the points with eventually periodic continued β-fraction expansion is dense in [c, +∞), where c=12logβ+2−5β+12.