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On Diophantine exponents for Laurent series over a finite field

Number Theory 2017-12-14 v4

Abstract

In this paper, we study properties of the Diophantine exponents wnw_n and wnw_n^{*} for Laurent series over a finite field. We prove that for an integer n1n\geq 1 and a rational number w>2n1w>2n-1, there exist a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers (kj)j1(k_j)_{j\geq 1} and a sequence of algebraic Laurent series (ξj)j1(\xi_j)_{j\geq 1} such that deg ξj=pkj+1\xi_j=p^{k_j}+1 and \begin{equation} w_1(\xi_j)=w_1 ^{*}(\xi_j)=\ldots =w_n(\xi_j)=w_n ^{*}(\xi_j)=w \end{equation} for any j1j\geq 1. For each n2n\geq 2, we give explicit examples of Laurent series ξ\xi for which wn(ξ)w_n(\xi ) and wn(ξ)w_n^{*}(\xi ) are different.

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@article{arxiv.1611.05719,
  title  = {On Diophantine exponents for Laurent series over a finite field},
  author = {Tomohiro Ooto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05719},
  year   = {2017}
}

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22 pages