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On a problem in simultaneous Diophantine approximation: Schmidt's conjecture

Number Theory 2010-03-12 v2

Abstract

For any i,j0i,j \ge 0 with i+j=1i+j =1, let \bad(i,j)\bad(i,j) denote the set of points (x,y)R2(x,y) \in \R^2 for which max{qx1/i,qy1/j}>c/q \max \{\|qx\|^{1/i}, \|qy\|^{1/j} \} > c/q for all qN q \in \N . Here c=c(x,y)c = c(x,y) is a positive constant. Our main result implies that any finite intersection of such sets has full dimension. This settles a conjecture of Wolfgang M. Schmidt in the theory of simultaneous Diophantine approximation.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1001.2694,
  title  = {On a problem in simultaneous Diophantine approximation: Schmidt's conjecture},
  author = {Dzmitry Badziahin and Andrew Pollington and Sanju Velani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2694},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

43 pages, 1 figure. A relatively minor mistake at the beginning of Section 4 (Proof of Theorem 3) that deals with the situation of parallel lines is corrected.

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