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Adelic approximation on spheres

Number Theory 2024-09-25 v1

Abstract

We establish an adelic version of Dirichlet's approximation theorem on spheres. Let KK be a number field, EE be a rigid adelic space over KK and q ⁣:EKq\colon E\to K be a quadratic form. Let vv be a place of KK and αEKKv\alpha\in E\otimes_{K}K_{v} such that q(α)=1q(\alpha)=1. We produce an explicit constant cc having the following property. If there exists xEx\in E such that q(x)=1q(x)=1 then, for any T>cT>c, there exists (\upupsilon,\upphi)E×K(\upupsilon,\upphi)\in E\times K, with max(\upupsilonE,v,\upphiv)T\max{(\Vert\upupsilon\Vert_{E,v},\vert\upphi\vert_{v})}\le T and max(\upupsilonE,w,\upphiw)\max{(\Vert\upupsilon\Vert_{E,w},\vert\upphi\vert_{w})} controlled for any place ww, satisfying q(\upupsilon)=\upphi20q(\upupsilon)=\upphi^{2}\ne 0 and q(α\upphi\upupsilon)vc\upphiv/T\vert q(\alpha\upphi-\upupsilon)\vert_{v}\le c\vert\upphi\vert_{v}/T. This remains true for some infinite algebraic extensions as well as for a compact set of places of KK. Our statements generalize and improve on earlier results by Kleinbock \\& Merrill (2015) and Moshchevitin (2017). The proofs rely on the quadratic Siegel's lemma in a rigid adelic space obtained by the author and R{\'e}mond (2017).

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@article{arxiv.2403.11714,
  title  = {Adelic approximation on spheres},
  author = {Éric Gaudron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.11714},
  year   = {2024}
}
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