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Intrinsic Diophantine approximation on circles and spheres

Number Theory 2023-09-01 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We study Lagrange spectra arising from intrinsic Diophantine approximation of circles and spheres. More precisely, we consider three circles embedded in R2\mathbb{R}^2 or R3\mathbb{R}^3 and three spheres embedded in R3\mathbb{R}^3 or R4\mathbb{R}^4. We present a unified framework to connect the Lagrange spectra of these six spaces with the spectra of R\mathbb{R} and C\mathbb{C}. Thanks to prior work of Asmus L.~Schmidt on the spectra of R\mathbb{R} and C\mathbb{C}, we obtain as a corollary, for each of the six spectra, the smallest accumulation point and the initial discrete part leading up to it completely.

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@article{arxiv.2209.00848,
  title  = {Intrinsic Diophantine approximation on circles and spheres},
  author = {Byungchul Cha and Dong Han Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00848},
  year   = {2023}
}

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28 pages, 9 figures

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