$S$-units and period length of continued fractions of linear recursions

Abstract

Let $(A_n{)}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}$ be a linear recurrence sequence with values in a real quadratic field. In this paper, we study the question whether the period length of the continued fraction of $A_n$ is bounded as $n$ varies. The case where $(A_n{)}_n$ is a linear recurrence of degree $1$ has previously been solved by Corvaja and Zannier. Their result settled a problem posed by Mendès France about the length of the periods of the continued fractions for ${\alpha }^n$.