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The Duffin-Schaeffer type conjectures in various local fields

Number Theory 2016-05-11 v1

Abstract

This paper discovers a new phenomenon about the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture, which claims that λ(m=1n=mEn)=1\lambda(\cap_{m=1}^{\infty}\cup_{n=m}^{\infty}{\mathcal E}_n)=1 if and only if nλ(En)=\sum_n\lambda({\mathcal E}_n)=\infty, where λ\lambda denotes the Lebesgue measure on R/Z\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}, En=En(ψ)=m=1(m,n)=1n(mψ(n)n,m+ψ(n)n), {\mathcal E}_n={\mathcal E}_n(\psi)=\bigcup_{m=1 \atop (m,n)=1}^n\big(\frac{m-\psi(n)}{n},\frac{m+\psi(n)}{n}\big), ψ\psi is any non-negative arithmetical function. Instead of studying m=1n=mEn\cap_{m=1}^{\infty}\cup_{n=m}^{\infty}{\mathcal E}_n we introduce an even fundamental object n=1En\cup_{n=1}^{\infty}{\mathcal E}_n and conjecture there exists a universal constant C>0C>0 such that λ(n=1En)Cmin{n=1λ(En),1}.\lambda(\bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}{\mathcal E}_n)\geq C\min\{\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\lambda({\mathcal E}_n),1\}. It is shown that this conjecture is equivalent to the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture. Similar phenomena are found in the fields of pp-adic numbers and formal Laurent series. As a byproduct, we answer conditionally a question of Haynes by showing that one can always use the quasi-independence on average method to deduce λ(m=1n=mEn)=1\lambda(\cap_{m=1}^{\infty}\cup_{n=m}^{\infty}{\mathcal E}_n)=1 as long as the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture is true. We also show among several others that two conjectures of Haynes, Pollington and Velani are equivalent to the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture, and introduce for the first time a weighted version of the second Borel-Cantelli lemma to the study of the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0035,
  title  = {The Duffin-Schaeffer type conjectures in various local fields},
  author = {Liangpan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0035},
  year   = {2016}
}
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