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Infinitely badly approximable affine forms

Number Theory 2025-09-23 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

A pair (A,b)(A,\mathbf{b}) of a real m×nm\times n matrix AA and bRm\mathbf{b}\in\mathbb{R}^m is said to be infinitely badly approximable\textit{infinitely badly approximable} if lim infqZn,qqnmAqbZ=, \liminf_{\mathbf{q}\in\mathbb{Z}^n, \|\mathbf{q}\|\to\infty} \|\mathbf{q}\|^{\frac{n}{m}}\|A\mathbf{q}-\mathbf{b}\|_{\mathbb{Z}} =\infty, where Z\|\cdot\|_\mathbb{Z} denotes the distance from the nearest integer vector. In this article, we introduce a novel concept of singularity for (A,b)(A,\mathbf{b}) and characterize the infinitely badly approximable property by this singular property. As an application, we compute the Hausdorff dimension of the infinitely badly approximable set. We also discuss dynamical interpretations on the space of grids in Rm+n\mathbb{R}^{m+n}.

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@article{arxiv.2406.00821,
  title  = {Infinitely badly approximable affine forms},
  author = {Taehyeong Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.00821},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

22 pages, Minor errata were corrected

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