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The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture with a moving target

Number Theory 2024-07-09 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We prove the inhomogeneous generalization of the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture in dimension m3m \geq 3. That is, given yRm\mathbf{y}\in \mathbb{R}^m and ψ:NR0\psi:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0} such that (φ(q)ψ(q)/q)m=\sum (\varphi(q)\psi(q)/q)^m = \infty, we show that for almost every xRm\mathbf{x} \in\mathbb{R}^m there are infinitely many rational vectors a/q\mathbf{a}/q such that qxay<ψ(q)\vert q\mathbf{x} - \mathbf{a} - \mathbf{y}\vert<\psi(q) and such that each component of a\mathbf{a} is coprime to qq. This is an inhomogeneous extension of a homogeneous conjecture of Sprind\v{z}uk which was itself proved in 1990 by Pollington and Vaughan. In fact, our main result generalizes Pollington-Vaughan not only to the inhomogeneous case, but also to the setting of moving targets, where the inhomogeneous parameter y\mathbf{y} is free to vary with qq. In contrast, we show by an explicit construction that the (1-dimensional) inhomogeneous Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture fails to hold with a moving target, implying that any successful attack on the one-dimensional problem must use the fact that the inhomogeneous parameter is constant. We also introduce new questions regarding moving targets.

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@article{arxiv.2407.05344,
  title  = {The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture with a moving target},
  author = {Manuel Hauke and Felipe A. Ramirez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.05344},
  year   = {2024}
}

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