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Dual $p$-adic Diophantine approximation on manifolds

Number Theory 2026-05-08 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The Generalised Baker-Schmidt Problem (1970) concerns the Hausdorff measure of the set of ψ\psi-approximable points on a nondegenerate manifold. Beresnevich-Dickinson-Velani (in 2006, for the homogeneous setting) and Badziahin-Beresnevich-Velani (in 2013, for the inhomogeneous setting) proved the divergence part of this problem for dual approximation on arbitrary nondegenerate manifolds. The divergence part has also been resolved for the pp-adic setting by Datta-Ghosh in 2022 for the inhomogeneous setting. The corresponding convergence counterpart represents a challenging open problem. In this paper, we prove the homogeneous pp-adic convergence result for hypersurfaces of dimension at least three with some mild regularity condition, as well as for some other classes of manifolds satisfying certain conditions. We provide similar, slightly weaker results for the inhomogeneous setting. We do not restrict to monotonic approximation functions.

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@article{arxiv.2308.14471,
  title  = {Dual $p$-adic Diophantine approximation on manifolds},
  author = {Mumtaz Hussain and Johannes Schleischitz and Benjamin Ward},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14471},
  year   = {2026}
}

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19 pages, comments welcome

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