Transcendence of Digital Expansions Generated by a Generalized Thue-Morse Sequence
Eiji Miyanohara
Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
Waseda University
3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku
Tokyo 169-8555
Japan
Abstract:
In this article, first we generalize the Thue-Morse sequence by means of a
cyclic permutation and the k-adic expansion of non-negative integers,
giving a sequence (a(n))n=0∞,
and consider the condition that
(a(n))n=0∞
is non-periodic. Next, we show that, if a
generalized Thue-Morse sequence
(a(n))n=0∞
is not periodic,
then no subsequence of the form
(a(N+nl))n=0∞
(where N ≥ 0 and
l > 0) is periodic. We apply the combinatorial transcendence
criterion established by Adamczewski, Bugeaud, Luca, and Bugeaud to
find that, for a non-periodic generalized Thue-Morse sequence taking
its values in {0,1,...,β-1} (where β is an integer
greater than 1), the series
Σn=0∞ a(N+nl)
β-n-1 gives a transcendental number. Furthermore, for
non-periodic generalized Thue-Morse sequences taking positive integer
values, the continued fraction
[0, a(N), a(N+l),..., a(N+nl), ...]
gives a transcendental number.
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Received August 9 2014;
revised version received October 10 2014; April 1 2015; July 21 2015;
July 31 2015.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, July 31 2015.
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