Lévy's constant
In mathematics Lévy's constant (sometimes known as the Khinchin–Lévy constant) occurs in an expression for the asymptotic behaviour of the denominators of the convergents of continued fractions.[1] In 1935, the Soviet mathematician Aleksandr Khinchin showed[2] that the denominators qn of the convergents of the continued fraction expansions of almost all real numbers satisfy
for some constant γ. Soon afterward, in 1936, the French mathematician Paul Lévy found[3] the explicit expression for the constant, namely
The term "Lévy's constant" is sometimes used to refer to 
(the logarithm of the above expression), which is approximately equal to 1.1865691104….
The base-10 logarithm of Lévy's constant, which is approximately 0.51532041…, is half of the reciprocal of the limit in Lochs' theorem.
See also
References
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- ↑ [Reference given in Dover book] "Zur metrischen Kettenbruchtheorie," Compositio Matlzematica, 3, No.2, 275–285 (1936).
- ↑ [Reference given in Dover book] P. Levy, Théorie de l'addition des variables aléatoires, Paris, 1937, p. 320.
Further reading
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External links
- Weisstein, Eric W., "Khinchin–Lévy Constant", MathWorld.
- Decimal expansion of Levy's constant: (sequence A086702 in OEIS)
