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Exponents of Diophantine approximation in dimension two for a general class of numbers

Number Theory 2022-04-20 v1

Abstract

We study the Diophantine properties of a new class of transcendental real numbers which contains, among others, Roy's extremal numbers, Bugeaud-Laurent Sturmian continued fractions, and more generally the class of Sturmian type numbers. We compute, for each real number ξ\xi of this set, several exponents of Diophantine approximation to the pair (ξ,ξ2)(\xi,\xi^2), together with ω2(ξ)\omega_2^*(\xi) and ω^2(ξ)\widehat{\omega}_2^*(\xi), the so-called ordinary and uniform exponent of approximation to ξ\xi by algebraic numbers of degree 2\leq 2. As an application, we get new information on the set of values taken by ω^2\widehat{\omega}_2^* at transcendental numbers, and we give a partial answer to a question of Fischler about his exponent β0\beta_0.

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@article{arxiv.2107.05618,
  title  = {Exponents of Diophantine approximation in dimension two for a general class of numbers},
  author = {Anthony Poëls},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.05618},
  year   = {2022}
}

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28 pages, 2 figures