# Rational Approximations to Certain Algebraic Numbers

## TL;DR

This paper proves that for certain algebraic numbers, there exists an effective constant ensuring a lower bound on approximation quality, implying their continued fraction partial quotients are bounded, supporting conjectures about their approximation properties.

## Contribution

The paper establishes effective bounds for approximation of specific algebraic numbers, demonstrating their partial quotients are bounded, which advances understanding of their Diophantine approximation properties.

## Key findings

- Existence of an effective constant C for algebraic numbers ensuring |p - qθ| > Cq^{-1}.
- Boundedness of the sequence of partial quotients for these algebraic numbers.
- Supports conjecture that certain algebraic numbers have unbounded partial quotients, but with proven bounds.

## Abstract

W.M.Schmit[11] conjectured that for any$\;\theta$ with deg$\;\theta\geq 3,$ there is no constant$\;C=C(\theta)$ so that$\;|p-q\theta|>Cq^{-1}$ for every rationa$\;p/q.$ [12,p26] states that the computations of the first several thousand partial quotients for such numbers as$\;\sqrt[3]{2}$ and$\;\sqrt[3]{3}$ support the conjecture that the sequence of partial quotients is unbounded. In this paper, applying Dirichlet's approximation theorem to certain algebraic numbers$\;\theta,$ e.g.$\;\theta=\sqrt[n]{d},d\in N,n\geq 3,d>0;$ $\;\theta^{3}+b_{1}\theta-b_{0}=0,b_{0}>0;$ $\;\theta^{4}+b_{2}\theta^{2}-b_{0}=0,\;b_{0}>0.$ We proved that there exists a effective constant$\;C=C(\theta)$ such that$\;|p-q\theta|>Cq^{-1}$ for all$\;p/q.$ Our theorem shows their sequence of partial quotients can not be unbounded.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1904.09392