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On the rational approximations to the powers of an algebraic number: Solution of two problems of Mahler and Mendès France
About fifty years ago Mahler [Ma] proved that i f ~ > 1 is rational but not an integer and i f 0 l all of whose conjugates different from cr have absolute value less than 1 (note that rational integers larger than 1 are Pisot numbers according to our …