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Two estimates concerning classical Diophantine approximation constants

Number Theory 2014-10-09 v1

Abstract

In this paper we aim to prove two inequalities involving the classical approximation constants wn(ζ),w^n(ζ)w_{n}^{\prime}(\zeta),\hat{w}_{n}^{\prime}(\zeta) that stem from the simultaneous approximation problem ζjxyj|\zeta^{j}x-y_{j}|, 1jn1\leq j\leq n, on the one side and the constants wn(ζ),w^n(ζ)w_{n}^{\ast}(\zeta),\hat{w}_{n}^{\ast}(\zeta) connected to approximation with algebraic numbers of degree n\leq n on the other side. We concretely prove wn(ζ)w^n(ζ)1w_{n}^{\ast}(\zeta)\hat{w}_{n}^{\prime}(\zeta)\geq 1 and w^n(ζ)wn(ζ)1\hat{w}_{n}^{\ast}(\zeta)w_{n}^{\prime}(\zeta)\geq 1. The first result is due to W. Schmidt, however our method of proving it allows to derive the other inequality as a dual result. Finally we will discuss estimates of wn(ζ),w^n(ζ)w_{n}^{\ast}(\zeta), \hat{w}_{n}^{\ast}(\zeta) uniformly in ζ\zeta depending only on nn as an application.

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@article{arxiv.1301.3322,
  title  = {Two estimates concerning classical Diophantine approximation constants},
  author = {Johannes Schleischitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.3322},
  year   = {2014}
}

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11 pages

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