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Levy-Khintchin Theorem for best simultaneous Diophantine approximations

Number Theory 2022-04-08 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We extend two results about the ordinary continued fraction expansion to best simultaneous Diophantine approximations of vectors or matrices. The first is Levy-Khintchin Theorem about the almost sure growth rate of the denominators of the convergents. The second is a Theorem of Bosma, Hendrik and Wiedijk about the almost sure limit distribution of the sequence of products qnd(qnθ,Z)q_n d(q_n\theta, Z) where the qnq_n's are the denominators of the convergents associated with the real number θ\theta by the ordinary continued fraction algorithm. Beside these two main results, we show that when d2d\ge2, for almost all vectors θRd\theta\in R^d, lim infnqn+kd(qnθ,Zd)=0\liminf_{n\to\infty} q_{n+k}d(q_n\theta, Z^d)=0 for all positive integers kk, where (qn)nN(q_n)_{n\in N} is the sequence of best approximation denominators of θ\theta.

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@article{arxiv.1906.11173,
  title  = {Levy-Khintchin Theorem for best simultaneous Diophantine approximations},
  author = {Yitwah Cheung and Nicolas Chevallier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11173},
  year   = {2022}
}

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57 pages, 1 figure

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