Related papers: The Lonely Runner Conjecture

For a subtorus $T \subseteq (\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})^n$, let $D(T)$ denote the $L^\infty$-distance from $T$ to the point $(1/2, \ldots, 1/2)$. For a subtorus $U \subseteq (\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})^n$, define $\mathcal{S}_1(U)$, the Lonely…

We introduce an inhomogeneous variant of Kaufman's measure, with applications to diophantine approximation. In particular, we make progress towards a problem related to Littlewood's conjecture.

The Lonely Runner Conjecture of Wills and Cusick states that if $k+1$ runners start running at distinct constant speeds around a unit-length circular track, then for each runner there is a time when he/she is at least $1/(k+1)$ away from…

For each subtorus $T$ of $(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})^n$, let $D(T)$ denote the (infimal) $L^\infty$-distance from $T$ to the point $(1/2,\ldots, 1/2)$. The $n$-th Lonely Runner spectrum $\mathcal{S}(n)$ is defined to be the set of all values…

We show that Lang's conjecture on error terms in Diophantine approximation implies Honda's conjecture on ranks of elliptic curves over number fields. We also show that even a very weak version of Lang's error term conjecture would be enough…

Let $||x||$ be the absolute distance from $x$ to the nearest integer. For a set of distinct positive integral speeds $v_1, \ldots, v_n$, we define its maximum loneliness, also known as the gap $\delta$, to be $$ML(v_1,\ldots,v_n) = \max_{t…

At a first glance, the problem of illuminating the boundary of a convex body by external light sources and the problem of covering a convex body by its smaller positive homothetic copies appear to be quite different. They are in fact two…

We collect a number of open questions concerning Diophantine equations, Diophantine Approximation and transcendental numbers. Revised version: corrected typos and added references.

The lonely runner conjecture of Wills and Cusick asserts that if $n$ runners with distinct constant speeds run around a a circular unit length track, starting at a common time and place, then each runner will at some time be separated by a…

This brief survey deals with multi-dimensional Diophantine approximations in sense of linear form and with simultaneous Diophantine approximations. We discuss the phenomenon of degenerate dimension of linear subspaces generated by the best…

We survey classical and recent results on exponents of Diophantine approximation. We give only a few proofs and highlight several open problems.

Diophantine approximation is the problem of approximating a real number by rational numbers. We propose a version of this in which the numerators are approximately related to the denominators by a Laurent polynomial. Our definition is…

The lonely runner conjecture of Wills and Cusick, in its most popular formulation, asserts that if $n$ runners with distinct constant speeds run around a unit circle ${\bf R}/{\bf Z}$ starting at a common time and place, then each runner…

We are concerned with the computational problem of determining the covering radius of a rational polytope. This parameter is defined as the minimal dilation factor that is needed for the lattice translates of the correspondingly dilated…

The study of several naturally arising "nearest neighbours" random walks benefits from the study of the associated orthogonal polynomials and their orthogonality measure. I consider extensions of this approach to a larger class of random…

This paper is motivated by Davenport's problem and the subsequent work regarding badly approximable points in submanifolds of a Euclidian space. We study the problem in the area of twisted Diophantine approximation and present two different…

In this paper we adopt a geometric point of view regarding a famous conjecture due to Littlewood in diophantine approximation of real numbers. Following the spirit of the geometric theory of continued fractions, we give a sufficient…

Wills conjectured that, for any non-zero integers $u_1,\ldots,u_k$, there is a real number $t$ such that, for all $i=1,\ldots,k$, \[\lVert tu_i\rVert\geq\frac{1}{k+1},\] where $\lVert x\rVert$ is the distance from $x$ to the closest…

We consider the problem of approaching real numbers with rational numbers with prime denominator and with a single numerator allowed for each denominator. We obtain basic results, both probabilistic and deterministic, draw connections to…

We study the problem of Diophantine approximation on lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under certain primality restrictions.