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An exponentially shrinking problem

Number Theory 2023-05-19 v2

Abstract

The Jarn\'ik-Besicovitch theorem is a fundamental result in metric number theory which gives the Hausdorff dimension for limsup sets. We investigate a related problem of estimating the Hausdorff dimension of a liminf set. Let h>0,τ1h>0, \tau\geq 1, and for any j1j\geq 1 define the integer sequence qj+1=qjhq_{j+1}=q_j^h. We prove the Hausdorff dimension of the set Λd\bftheta(τ)={\xx[0,1)d:qjxiθi<qjτ for all j1,i=1,2,,d},\Lambda^\bftheta_d(\tau)=\left\{\xx\in[0, 1)^d: \|q_jx_i-\theta_i\|<q_j^{-\tau} \ \text{for all } j\geq 1, i=1,2,\cdots,d\right\}, where \left\|\star\right\| denotes the distance to the nearest integer and \bftheta[0,1)d\bftheta\in [0, 1)^d is fixed. We also give some heuristics for the Hausdorff dimension of the corresponding multiplicative set \MMd\bftheta(τ)={\xx[0,1)d:i=1dqjxiθi<qjτ for all j1}.\MM_d^\bftheta(\tau)=\left\{\xx\in[0, 1)^d:\prod_{i=1}^d \|q_jx_i-\theta_i\|<q_j^{-\tau} \ \text{for all } j\geq 1\right\}.

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@article{arxiv.2302.10379,
  title  = {An exponentially shrinking problem},
  author = {Mumtaz Hussain and Junjie Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.10379},
  year   = {2023}
}

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