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Geometric and arithmetic aspects of approximation vectors

Number Theory 2025-05-20 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let θRd\theta\in\mathbb{R}^d. We associate three objects to each approximation (p,q)Zd×N(p,q)\in \mathbb{Z}^d\times \mathbb{N} of θ\theta: the projection of the lattice Zd+1\mathbb{Z}^{d+1} to the hyperplane of the first dd coordinates along the approximating vector (p,q)(p,q); the displacement vector (pqθ)(p - q\theta); and the residue classes of the components of the (d+1)(d + 1)-tuple (p,q)(p, q) modulo all primes. All of these have been studied in connection with Diophantine approximation problems. We consider the asymptotic distribution of all of these quantities, properly rescaled, as (p,q)(p, q) ranges over the best approximants and ϵ\epsilon-approximants of θ\theta, and describe limiting measures on the relevant spaces, which hold for Lebesgue a.e. θ\theta. We also consider a similar problem for vectors θ\theta whose components, together with 1, span a totally real number field of degree d+1d+1. Our technique involve recasting the problem as an equidistribution problem for a cross-section of a one-parameter flow on an adelic space, which is a fibration over the space of (d+1)(d + 1)-dimensional lattices. Our results generalize results of many previous authors, to higher dimensions and to joint equidistribution.

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@article{arxiv.2206.05329,
  title  = {Geometric and arithmetic aspects of approximation vectors},
  author = {Uri Shapira and Barak Weiss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.05329},
  year   = {2025}
}

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88 pages

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