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Let $p$ be a prime number and $\xi$ an irrational $p$-adic number. Its multiplicative irrationality exponent ${{\mu^{\times}}} (\xi)$ is the supremum of the real numbers ${{\mu^{\times}}}$ for which the inequality $$ |b \xi - a|_{p} \leq |…
Consider the classical problem of rational simultaneous approximation to a point in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. The optimal lower bound on the gap between the induced ordinary and uniform approximation exponents has been established by Marnat and…
We give uniform upper bounds for the number of rational points of height at most $B$ on non-singular complete intersections of two quadrics in $\mathbb{P}^3$ defined over $\mathbb{Q}$. To do this, we combine determinant methods with descent…
We compute the constant of approximation for an arbitrary rational point on an arbitrary smooth cubic hypersurface $X$ over a number field $k$, provided that there is a $k$-rational line somewhere on $X$. In the process, we verify the Coba…
For a fixed $\alpha$, each real number $x \in (0,1)$ can be represented by many different generalised $\alpha$-L\"uroth expansions. Each such expansion produces for the number $x$ a sequence of rational approximations $(\frac{p_n}{q_n})_{n…
A reasonably complete theory of the approximation of an irrational by rational fractions whose numerators and denominators lie in prescribed arithmetic progressions is developed in this paper. Results are both, on the one hand, from a…
We find convergent double series expansions for Legendre's third incomplete elliptic integral valid in overlapping subdomains of the unit square. Truncated expansions provide asymptotic approximations in the neighbourhood of the logarithmic…
In the present work we consider rational best approximations to the exponential function that minimize a uniform error on a subset of the imaginary axis. Namely, Chebyshev approximation and unitary best approximation where the latter is…
We establish a general transference principle for the irrationality measure of points with $\mathbb{Q}$-linearly independent coordinates in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, for any given integer $n\geq 1$. On this basis, we recover an important…
We determine exactly which positive rational numbers occur as squared edge lengths of regular $d$-simplices with vertices in $\mathbb{Q}^n$. The answer exhibits a sharp stabilization phenomenon: once $n-d\geq 3$, every positive rational…
We prove that almost any pair of real numbers a,b, satisfies the following inhomogeneous uniform version of Littlewood's conjecture: (*) forall x,y in R, liminf_{|n|\to\infty} |n|<na - x> <nb - y> = 0, where <-> denotes the distance from…
We prove a refined version of Markov's theorem in Diophantine approximation. More precisely, we characterize completely the set of irrationals $x$ such that $\left|x-\frac{p}{q}\right|<\frac{1}{3q^2}$ has only finitely many rational…
We propose an asympotically optimal choice of shared concentrated real poles of a family of rational approximants of time-dependent exponential functions $\exp(-tz)$ for $z \geq 0$ and $t$ in a positive time interval $T$. Our result extends…
We refine upper bounds for the classical exponents of uniform approximation for a linear form on the Veronese curve in dimension from $3$ to $9$. For dimension three, this in particular shows that a bound previously obtained by two…
We study weighted simultaneous rational approximation to points of the form $(1,\xi,\xi^2)$, for a class of extremal real numbers $\xi$, within the framework of multi-parametric geometry of numbers.
We provide an asymptotic estimate for the number of rational points of bounded height on a non-singular conic over the rationals. The estimate is uniform in the coefficients of the underlying quadratic form.
Following T. H. Chan, we consider the problem of approximation of a given rational fraction a/q by sums of several rational fractions a_1/q_1, ..., a_n/q_n with smaller denominators. We show that in the special cases of n=3 and n=4 and…
We study how well a real number can be approximated by sums of two or more rational numbers with denominators up to a certain size.
We approximate the uniform measure on an equilateral triangle by a measure supported on $n$ points. We find the optimal sets of points ($n$-means) and corresponding approximation (quantization) error for $n\leq4$, give numerical…
We investigate approximation to a given real number by algebraic numbers and algebraic integers of prescribed degree. We deal with both best and uniform approximation, and highlight the similarities and differences compared with the…