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A zero-one Law for improvements to Dirichlet's Theorem

Number Theory 2017-02-21 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We give an integrability condition on a function ψ\psi guaranteeing that for almost all (or almost no) xRx\in\mathbb{R}, the system qxpψ(t)|qx-p|\leq \psi(t), q<t|q|<t is solvable in pZp\in \mathbb{Z}, qZ{0}q\in \mathbb{Z}\smallsetminus \{0\} for sufficiently large tt. Along the way, we characterize such xx in terms of the growth of their continued fraction entries, and we establish that Dirichlet's Approximation Theorem is sharp in a very strong sense. Higher-dimensional generalizations are discussed at the end of the paper.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1609.06780,
  title  = {A zero-one Law for improvements to Dirichlet's Theorem},
  author = {Dmitry Kleinbock and Nick Wadleigh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06780},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

12 pages; minor corrections made, Corollary 3.7 added to the latest version

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