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Rational best approximations (in a Chebyshev sense) to real functions are characterized by an equioscillating approximation error. Similar results do not hold true for rational best approximations to complex functions in general. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Tobias Jawecki , Pranav Singh

In a series of recent papers, W. M. Schmidt and L. Summerer developed a new theory by which they recover all major generic inequalities relating exponents of Diophantine approximation to a point in $\mathbb{R}^n$, and find new ones. Given a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Damien Roy

The present paper analyzes the discrepancy of distribution of rational points on general semisimple algebraic group varieties. The results include mean-square, almost sure, and uniform discrepancy estimates with explicit error bounds, which…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Alexander Gorodnik , Amos Nevo

Consider a set P of N random points on the unit sphere of dimension $d-1$, and the symmetrized set S = P union (-P). The halving polyhedron of S is defined as the convex hull of the set of centroids of N distinct points in S. We prove that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-25 Quentin Mérigot

Computing rational minimax approximations can be very challenging when there are singularities on or near the interval of approximation - precisely the case where rational functions outperform polynomials by a landslide. We show that far…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Silviu-Ioan Filip , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Lloyd N. Trefethen , Bernhard Beckermann

We study the following range searching problem in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces: given a finite set $P\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, where each $p\in P$ is assigned a weight $w_p$, and radius $r>0$, we need to preprocess $P$ into a data…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Andreas Kalavas , Ioannis Psarros

We give elementary proof of stronger versions of several recent results on intrinsic Diophantine approximation on rational quadric hypersurfaces $X\subset \mathbb{P}^n(\mathbb{R})$. The main tool is a refinement of the simplex lemma, which…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Dmitry Kleinbock , Nicolas de Saxcé

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…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Zhe Cao , Harold Erazo , Carlos Gustavo Moreira

We prove that an $\epsilon$-approximate fixpoint of a map $f:[0,1]^d\rightarrow [0,1]^d$ can be found with $\mathcal{O}(d^2(\log\frac{1}{\epsilon} + \log\frac{1}{1-\lambda}))$ queries to $f$ if $f$ is $\lambda$-contracting with respect to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Sebastian Haslebacher , Jonas Lill , Patrick Schnider , Simon Weber

We give a simple proof of a recent result by Kleinbock and Merrill concerning intrinsic approximations on sphere, in the simplest case of two-dimensional sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-11 Nikolay Moshchevitin

We provide an upper bound on the uniform exponent of approximation to a triple (xi, xi^2, xi^3) by rational numbers with the same denominator, valid for any transcendental real number xi. This upper bound refines a previous result of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Damien Roy

The computation of (i) $\varepsilon$-kernels, (ii) approximate diameter, and (iii) approximate bichromatic closest pair are fundamental problems in geometric approximation. In this paper, we describe new algorithms that offer significant…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

Refining an argument of the second author, we improve the known bounds for the number of rational points near a submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^d$ of intermediate dimension under a natural curvature condition. Furthermore, in the codimension $2$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jonathan Hickman , Rajula Srivastava , James Wright

The goal of this PhD thesis is to study a diophantine approximation problem stated by Schmidt in 1967. The problem aim to study the approximation of a subspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ by rational subspaces, not necessarily of the same dimension,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Elio Joseph

Consider a set $P$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$. In the discrete median line segment problem, the objective is to find a line segment bounded by a pair of points in $P$ such that the sum of the Euclidean distances from $P$ to the line…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Ovidiu Daescu , Ka Yaw Teo

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…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-04 David McKinnon

$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}\newcommand{\eps}{{\varepsilon}}\newcommand{\poly}{\mathrm{poly}} $In this paper, we study the problem of $L_1$-fitting a shape to a set of $n$ points in $\Re^d$ (where $d$ is a fixed constant), where the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sariel Har-Peled

A collection of algorithms is described for numerically computing with smooth functions defined on the unit sphere. Functions are approximated to essentially machine precision by using a structure-preserving iterative variant of Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Alex Townsend , Heather Wilber , Grady B. Wright

By using pairs of nontrivial rational solutions of congruent number equation $$ C_N:\;\;y^2=x^3-N^2x, $$ constructed are pairs of rational right (Pythagorean) triangles with one common side and the other sides equal to the sum and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Mamuka Meskhishvili

This paper uses W. M. Schmidt's idea formulated in 1967 to generalise the classical theory of Diophantine approximation to subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Given two subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^n$ $A$ and $B$ of respective dimensions $d$ and $e$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Elio Joseph