A further improvement of the quantitative subspace theorem (Q1947638): Difference between revisions

One of the most powerful tools in Diophantine approximation, namely Schmidt's Subspace Theorem, has refined quantitative versions, initially obtained also by W.~M.~Schmidt, and later generalized by several mathematicians, including Schlickewei and then the first author. In [J. Reine Angew. Math. 548, 21--127 (2002; Zbl 1026.11060)], the first author and \textit{H. P. Schlickewei} proved a stronger and fully general version of the absolute parametric subspace theorem. Their result led to a number of deep consequences (number of solutions of linear equations in unknowns from a multiplicative group of finite rank in a field of zero characteristic, zero multiplicities of linear recurrence sequences, complexity of binary expansions of algebraic numbers, approximation of algebraic numbers by algebraic numbers,\dots), a survey of which is given in [\textit{Y. Bugeaud}, J. Théor. Nombres Bordx. 23, No. 1, 35--57 (2011; Zbl 1272.11089)]. The main goal of the paper under review is to refine this statement, including a much sharper upper bound for the number of exceptional subspaces which occur in the conclusion. One of the consequences of their main result is a refinement of a result due to \textit{G. Faltings} and \textit{G. Wüstholz} [Invent. Math. 116, No. 1--3, 109--138 (1994; Zbl 0805.14011)]. The proof involves not only the ideas from geometry of numbers, exterior products and Roth's machinery, as in previous papers going back to Schmidt's fundamental work, but also ideas arising from the above mentioned contribution by Faltings and Wüstholz, including a sharp version of Roth's lemma going back to \textit{G. Faltings}' product theorem [Ann. Math. (2) 133, No. 3, 549--576 (1991; Zbl 0734.14007)].