A conjecture on rational approximations to rational points
Number Theory
2007-05-23 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
In this paper, we examine how well a rational point P on an algebraic variety X can be approximated by other rational points. We conjecture that if P lies on a rational curve, then the best approximations to P on X can be chosen to lie along a rational curve. We prove this conjecture for a wide range of examples, and for a great many more examples we deduce our conjecture from Vojta's Main Conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0504303,
title = {A conjecture on rational approximations to rational points},
author = {David McKinnon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0504303},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
49 pages, 3 figures. Exposition improved, particularly in the proofs of the main theorems, and the connection with accumulating subvarieties made explicit