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Quantitative inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation for systems of linear forms

Number Theory 2023-12-05 v1 Probability

Abstract

The inhomogeneous Khintchine-Groshev Theorem is a classical generalization of Khintchine's Theorem in Diophantine approximation, by approximating points in Rm\mathbb{R}^m by systems of linear forms in nn variables. Analogous to the question considered by Duffin and Schaeffer for Khintchine's Theorem (which is the case m=n=1m = n = 1), the question arises for which m,nm,n the monotonicity can be safely removed. If m=n=1m = n = 1, it is known that monotonicity is needed. Recently, Allen and Ramirez showed that for mn3mn \geq 3, the monotonicity assumption is unnecessary, conjecturing this to also hold when mn=2mn = 2. In this article, we confirm this conjecture for the case (m,n)=(1,2)(m,n)=(1,2) whenever the inhomogeneous parameter is a non-Liouville irrational number. Furthermore, under mild assumptions on the approximation function, we show an asymptotic formula (with almost square-root cancellation), which is not even known for homogeneous approximation. The proof makes use of refined overlap estimates in the 1-dimensional setting, which may have other applications including the inhomogeneous Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2312.01986,
  title  = {Quantitative inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation for systems of linear forms},
  author = {Manuel Hauke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.01986},
  year   = {2023}
}

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