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An inhomogeneous Dirichlet theorem via shrinking targets

Number Theory 2019-06-26 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We give an integrability criterion on a real-valued non-increasing function ψ\psi guaranteeing that for almost all (or almost no) pairs (A,b)(A, \textbf{b}), where AA is a real m×nm\times n matrix and bRm\textbf{b} \in \mathbb{R}^m, the system Aq+bpm<ψ(T)\|A \textbf{q}+\textbf{b}-\textbf{p}\|^m< \psi({T}), qn<T\|\textbf{q}\|^n<{T} is solvable in pZm\textbf{p} \in \mathbb{Z}^m, qZn\textbf{q} \in \mathbb{Z}^n for all sufficiently large TT. The proof consists of a reduction to a shrinking target problem on the space of grids in Rm+n\mathbb{R}^{m+n}. We also comment on the homogeneous counterpart to this problem, whose m=n=1m=n=1 case was recently solved, but whose general case remains open.

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@article{arxiv.1709.04082,
  title  = {An inhomogeneous Dirichlet theorem via shrinking targets},
  author = {Dmitry Kleinbock and Nick Wadleigh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.04082},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

22 pages, minor corrections made

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