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A SUFFICIENT CONDITION OF CONVERGENCE FOR CLIFFORD CONTINUED FRACTIONS

  • LI Yong-Qun ,
  • WANG Xian-Tao
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  • Department of Mathematics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China;Department of Mathematics, Hunan |Normal University, Changsha 410081, China

Received date: 2006-04-25

  Revised date: 2007-07-02

  Online published: 2011-01-20

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The research was partly supported by NSFs of China (10771059 and 11071063) and Hunan Province (05JJ10001), and NCET (04-0783).

Abstract

In this article, a sufficient condition for a Clifford continued fraction to be convergent is established, and some applications are given.

Cite this article

LI Yong-Qun , WANG Xian-Tao . A SUFFICIENT CONDITION OF CONVERGENCE FOR CLIFFORD CONTINUED FRACTIONS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2011 , 31(1) : 8 -14 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(11)60202-6

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