A reinforcement of the Bourgain-Kontorovich's theorem by elementary methods II

Abstract

Zaremba's conjecture (1971) states that every positive integer number $d$ can be represented as a denominator (continuant) of a finite continued fraction $\frac{b}{d}=[d_1,d_2,...,d_k],$ with all partial quotients $d_1,d_2,...,d_k$ being bounded by an absolute constant $A.$ Recently (in 2011) several new theorems concerning this conjecture were proved by Bourgain and Kontorovich. The easiest of them states that the set of numbers satisfying Zaremba's conjecture with A=50 has positive proportion in $\mathbb{N}.$ In this paper,using only elementary methods, the same theorem is proved with A=5.

arXiv commentpaper in English, 57 pages