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Examples of badly approximable vectors over number fields

Number Theory 2019-01-16 v2

Abstract

We consider approximation of vectors zFRRr×Cs\mathbf{z}\in F\otimes\mathbb{R}\cong\mathbb{R}^r\times\mathbb{C}^s by elements of a number field FF and construct examples of badly approximable vectors. These examples come from compact subspaces of SL2(OF)\SL2(FR)SL_2(\mathcal{O}_F)\backslash SL_2(F\otimes\mathbb{R}) naturally associated to (totally indefinite, anisotropic) FF-rational binary quadratic and Hermitian forms, a generalization of the well-known fact that quadratic irrationals are badly approximable over Q\mathbb{Q}.

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@article{arxiv.1809.07404,
  title  = {Examples of badly approximable vectors over number fields},
  author = {Robert Hines},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07404},
  year   = {2019}
}
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