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On transference principle and Nesterenko's linear independence criterion

Number Theory 2021-04-06 v2

Abstract

We consider the problem of simultaneous approximation of real numbers θ1,,θn\theta_1, \ldots,\theta_n with rationals and the dual problem of approximating zero with the values of the linear form x0+θ1x1++θnxnx_0+\theta_1x_1+\ldots+\theta_nx_n at integer points. In this setting we analyse two transference inequalities obtained by Schmidt and Summerer. We present a rather simple geometric observation, which proves their result. We also derive several corollaries previously unknown. Particularly, we show that, together with the transference inequalities for uniform exponents, Schmidt and Summerer's inequalities imply the inequalities by Bugeaud and Laurent and "one half" of the inequalities by Marnat and Moshchevitin. Besides that, we show that our main construction provides a rather simple proof of Nesterenko's linear independence criterion.

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@article{arxiv.2103.12113,
  title  = {On transference principle and Nesterenko's linear independence criterion},
  author = {Oleg N. German and Nikolay G. Moshchevitin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.12113},
  year   = {2021}
}
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