Some questions in Diophantine approximation: real and p-adics
Abstract
The Weak approximation theorem describes the closure of inside as well as inside for an algebraic group over ; the closure is always an open normal subgroup with finite abelian quotient, and is well understood in a certain sense even if precise results are not always available (such as for tori!). In this paper, for a finitely generated subgroup we consider the topological closure of inside and . The paper is written mostly for a torus or an abelian variety, but eventually considers a variant of the question for a semisimple group. The paper is written with the wishful thinking that when dealing with questions on topological closure of algebraic points in an algebraic group defined over a number field, the simplest answers hold, a well-known principle known as ``Occum's razor''.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.15744,
title = {Some questions in Diophantine approximation: real and p-adics},
author = {Dipendra Prasad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.15744},
year = {2025}
}