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Inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation for generic homogeneous functions

Number Theory 2022-08-30 v2

Abstract

The present paper is a sequel to [Monatsh.~Math.\ {\bf 194} (2021), 523--554] in which results of that paper are generalized so that they hold in the setting of inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation. Given any integers n2n \geq 2 and 1\ell \geq 1, any ξ=(ξ1,,ξ)R{\pmb \xi} = \left(\xi_1, \dots , \xi_\ell \right) \in \mathbb{R}^\ell, and any homogeneous function \linebreak f=(f1,,f):RnRf = \left(f_1, \dots , f_\ell \right): \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^\ell that satisfies a certain nonsingularity assumption, we obtain a biconditional criterion on the approximating function ψ=(ψ1,,ψ):R0(R>0)\psi = \left(\psi_1, \dots , \psi_\ell \right): \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0} \to \left(\mathbb{R}_{>0}\right)^\ell for a generic element fgf \circ g in the SLn(R)\operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb{R})-orbit of ff to be (respectively, not to be) ψ\psi-approximable at ξ=(ξ1,,ξn){\pmb \xi} = (\xi_1,\dots,\xi_n): that is, for there to exist infinitely many (respectively, only finitely many) vZn\mathbf{v} \in \mathbb{Z}^n such that ξj(fjg)(v)ψj(v)\left|\xi_j - \left( f_j \circ g\right)(\mathbf{v})\right| \leq \psi_j(\|\mathbf{v}\|) for each j{1,,}j \in \left\lbrace 1, \dots, \ell \right\rbrace. In this setting, we also obtain a sufficient condition for uniform approximation. We also consider some examples of ff that do not satisfy our nonsingularity assumptions and prove similar results for these examples. Moreover, one can replace SLn(R)\operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb{R}) above by any closed subgroup of ASLn(R)\operatorname{ASL}_n(\mathbb{R}) that satisfies certain integrability axioms (being of Siegel and Rogers type) introduced by the authors in the aforementioned previous paper.

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@article{arxiv.2205.01361,
  title  = {Inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation for generic homogeneous functions},
  author = {Dmitry Kleinbock and Mishel Skenderi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.01361},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

19 pages; exposition reworded, more examples added

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