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On metric diophantine approximation in matrices and Lie groups

Number Theory 2015-01-22 v2 Dynamical Systems Group Theory

Abstract

We study the diophantine exponent of analytic submanifolds of the space of m by n real matrices, answering questions of Beresnevich, Kleinbock and Margulis. We identify a family of algebraic obstructions to the extremality of such a submanifold, and give a formula for the exponent when the submanifold is algebraic and defined over the rationals. We then apply these results to the determination of the diophantine exponent of rational nilpotent Lie groups.

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@article{arxiv.1410.3996,
  title  = {On metric diophantine approximation in matrices and Lie groups},
  author = {Menny Aka and Emmanuel Breuillard and Lior Rosenzweig and Nicolas de Saxcé},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3996},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Theorem 3.4 was modified. To appear in Comptes Rendus Mathematique

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