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Exact approximation order and well-distributed sets

Number Theory 2022-08-31 v1

Abstract

We prove that for any proper metric space XX and a function ψ:(0,)(0,)\psi:(0,\infty)\to(0,\infty) from a suitable class of approximation functions, the Hausdorff dimensions of the set Wψ(Q)W_\psi(Q) of all points ψ\psi-well-approximable by a well-distributed subset QXQ\subset X, and the set Eψ(Q)E_\psi(Q) of points that are exactly ψ\psi-approximable by QQ, coincide. This answers in a general setting, a question of Beresnevich-Dickinson-Velani in the case of approximation of reals by rationals, and answered by Bugeaud in that case using the continued-fraction expansion of reals. Our main result applies in particular to approximation by orbits of fixed points of a wide class of discrete groups of isometries acting on the boundary of hyperbolic metric spaces.

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@article{arxiv.2208.14204,
  title  = {Exact approximation order and well-distributed sets},
  author = {Prasuna Bandi and Anish Ghosh and Debanjan Nandi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.14204},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages

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