A three gap theorem for adeles

DOI10.1007/S11139-022-00648-3MaRDI QIDQ2111880zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Akshat Das, Alan Haynes

Publication date 17 January 2023

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05147

zbMATH Keywords

adelesSteinhaus problemthree gap theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution modulo one (11J71) Non-Archimedean dynamical systems (11S82) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44) Arithmetic and non-Archimedean dynamical systems involving polynomial and rational maps (37P05)

Review text

The classical three gap theorem is formulated as follows. For any irrational number \(\alpha\) and a positive integer \(N\) consider the collection of points \(n\alpha \mod 1\) for \(1 \leq n \leq N\). They subdivide the circle \(\mathbb R/ \mathbb Z\) into component arcs. Then the set of lengths of these arcs has at least three elements. This theorem is also known as the three distance theorem and as the Steinhaus problem. In this paper the authors prove a natural generalization of the three gap theorem, for rotations on adelic tori. The proof is an adaptation to the adeles of the lattice-based approach to gaps problems in Diophantine approximation originally introduced by \textit{J. Marklof} and \textit{A. Strömbergsson} [Am. Math. Mon. 124, No. 8, 741--745 (2017; Zbl 1391.11092)].

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