The transcendence of growth constants associated with polynomial recursions.

Let P (x) : = a d x d + ⋯ + a 0 ∈ ℚ [ x ] , a d > 0 , be a polynomial of degree d ≥ 2. Let (x n) be a sequence of integers satisfying x n + 1 = P (x n) for all  n = 0 , 1 , 2 , ... and x n → ∞ as  n → ∞. Set α : = lim n → ∞ x n d − n . Then, under the assumption a d 1 / (d − 1) ∈ ℚ , in a recent result by [A. Dubickas, Transcendency of some constants related to integer sequences of polynomial iterations, Ramanujan J. 57 (2022) 569–581], either α is transcendental or α can be an integer or a quadratic Pisot unit with α − 1 being its conjugate over ℚ. In this paper, we study the nature of such α without the assumption that a d 1 / (d − 1) is in ℚ , and we prove that either the number α is transcendental, or α h is a Pisot number with h being the order of the torsion subgroup of the Galois closure of the number field ℚ α , a d − 1 d − 1 . Other results presented in this paper investigate the solutions of the inequality | | q 1 α 1 n + ⋯ + q k α k n + β | | < n in (n , q 1 , ... , q k) ∈ ℕ × (K ×) k , considering whether β is rational or irrational. Here, K represents a number field, and ∈ (0 , 1). The notation | | x | | denotes the distance between x and its nearest integer in ℤ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]