Sharpening Vahlen's result in Diophantine approximation
Dynamical Systems
2025-04-30 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
n this paper we refine Vahlen's 1895 result in Diophantine approximation by providing sharper bounds for the approximation coefficients, especially when at least one of the partial quotients or of the regular continued fraction expansion of is 1. An improvement of Vahlen's result was already given in papers by Jaroslav Han\u{c}l ([9]), Han\u{c}l and Silvie Bahnerova ([10]), and by Dinesh Sharma Bhattarai ([5]), but the approach of the present paper is very different from Han\u{c}l c.s. We believe that the geometrical methods used in this paper not only offer a significant improvement over Vahlen's result, but also yield new insights that can contribute to improving Borel's classical constant.
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@article{arxiv.2504.20640,
title = {Sharpening Vahlen's result in Diophantine approximation},
author = {Ayreena Bakhtawar and Cor Kraaikamp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.20640},
year = {2025}
}
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11 pages, 4 figures