Badly approximable numbers for sequences of balls

Abstract: It is a classical result from Diophantine approximation that the set of badly approximable numbers has Lebesgue measure zero. In this paper we generalise this result to more general sequences of balls. Given a countable set of closed

d

-dimensional Euclidean balls

{B (x_{i}, r_{i})}_{i = 1}^{i n f t y},

we say that

a l p h a i n m a t h b b R^{d}

is a badly approximable number with respect to

{B (x_{i}, r_{i})}_{i = 1}^{i n f t y}

if there exists

k a p p a (a l p h a) > 0

and

N (a l p h a) i n m a t h b b N

such that

a l p h a o t i n B (x_{i}, k a p p a (a l p h a) r_{i})

for all

i g e q N (a l p h a)

. Under natural conditions on the set of balls, we prove that the set of badly approximable numbers with respect to

{B (x_{i}, r_{i})}_{i = 1}^{i n f t y}

has Lebesgue measure zero. Moreover, our approach yields a new proof that the set of badly approximable numbers has Lebesgue measure zero.

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