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Hausdorff dimension of intersections between the Jarn\'ik sets and Diophantine fractals

Number Theory 2025-12-30 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The irrationality exponent of a real number measures how well that number can be approximated by rationals. Real numbers with irrationality exponent strictly greater than 22 are transcendental numbers, and form a set with rich fractal structure. We show that this set intersects the limit set of any parabolic iterated function system arising from the backward continued fraction in a set of full Hausdorff dimension. As a corollary, we show that the set of irrationals whose irrationality exponents are strictly bigger than 22 and whose backward continued fraction expansions have bounded partial quotients is of Hausdorff dimension 11. This is a sharp contrast to the fact that there exists no irrational whose irrationality exponent is strictly greater than 22 and whose regular continued fraction expansion has bounded partial quotients.

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@article{arxiv.2512.23402,
  title  = {Hausdorff dimension of intersections between the Jarn\'ik sets and Diophantine fractals},
  author = {Hiroki Takahasi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.23402},
  year   = {2025}
}

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