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On Dirichlet non-improvable numbers and shrinking target problems

Dynamical Systems 2025-10-08 v2

Abstract

In one-dimensional Diophantine approximation, the Diophantine properties of a real number are characterized by its partial quotients, especially the growth of its large partial quotients. Notably, Kleinbock and Wadleigh [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 2018] made a seminal contribution by linking the improvability of Dirichlet's theorem to the growth of the product of consecutive partial quotients. In this paper, we extend the concept of Dirichlet non-improvable sets within the framework of shrinking target problems. Specifically, consider the dynamical system ([0,1),T)([0,1), T) of continued fractions. Let {zn}n1\{z_n\}_{n \ge 1} be a sequence of real numbers in [0,1][0,1] and let B>1B > 1. We determine the Hausdorff dimension of the following set: {x[0,1):TnxznTn+1xTzn<Bn infinitely often}. \begin{split} \{x\in[0,1):|T^nx-z_n||T^{n+1}x-Tz_n|<B^{-n}\text{ infinitely often}\}. \end{split}

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@article{arxiv.2503.10381,
  title  = {On Dirichlet non-improvable numbers and shrinking target problems},
  author = {Qian Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.10381},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted by Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

R2 v1 2026-06-28T22:19:04.750Z